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...use inactive ssh sessions by default don't transmit any data, these firewalls forget about this session and when you do try to send some data over this connection, it gets disconnected. It turns out that recent versions of OpenSSH clients already have an option that solves this problem - ServerAliveInterval. Is there a reason why OpenSSH shouldn't enable ServerAliveInterval in the default client configuration, with some interval of, say, 120 seconds? I believe that because these automatically-disconnecting firewalls are almost ubiquitous on today's firewall, this setting is very important, a...