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...behavior) to set a timeout on the select() statement that waits for input in clientloop.c. This fixes a timeout issue for me (explained below) and probably also fixes the timeouts mentioned in last month's thread "Idle time out". The patch is also available by http from: http://www.chaos2.org/~jacob/code/patch-openssh-1.2.2-trans_inter I am ssh-ing from a machine on my home network to one on the internet. This goes out over a Linux ip_masquerade firewall. When I wrote the attached patch, I thought it was the firewall that was killing the connection by timing out on the redir...

...his a problem? It doesn't seem to impact my connection negatively. I am getting these when using a plain-vanilla openssh client to connect to an ssh-1.2.27 server. inbetween:~# tcpdump -i eth1 | grep truncated tcpdump: listening on eth1 01:45:30.454190 truncated-ip - 10 bytes missing!velius.chaos2.org.ssh > c392100-a.crvlls1.or.home.com.64080: P 3169:3433(264) ack 1580 win 32120 <nop,nop,timestamp 29956970 1187150> (DF) 01:45:40.501069 truncated-ip - 186 bytes missing!velius.chaos2.org.ssh > c392100-a.crvlls1.or.home.com.64080: P 5809:6249(440) ack 2840 win 32120 <nop,nop,tim...

...this one. If you have things that I really need to know, please reply or CC me off-list. I often work through masqueraded (NAT) links, and find that the following patch is able to keep an idle ssh link up where nothing else will. Please consider making it a part of the main ssh package. http://chaos2.org/~jacob/code/openssh/patch-openssh-1.2.3-trans_inter-r3.gz I understand that Linux-Mandrake, starting with the updates to their distribution release number 7.2, includes this patch routinely. I myself have never had a problem with it. Does it do anything nasty to other (non-Linux) systems?...