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The attached patch adds a new 'ConnectTimeout' option (man page updated in patch) to avoid wasting time when the target host is down. I needed that because I was using rsync/rdist over ssh for massive files update and the default connect() took too long for my purpose. The patch was tested on Linux only, but I used a similar one for ssh 1.2.XX on Linux, Solaris and HP-UX without

...me when doing an ssh()/scp() on a down host, as it does not depend off the default TCP timeout used by connect(). Patch was tested on Linux, Solaris and HP-UX. The patch can also be found on: http://charts.free.fr/openssh-3.1p1-timeout.patch Hope it will help you... -- Jean-Charles Longuet -------------- next part -------------- --- openssh-3.1p1/readconf.c.ORIG Tue Feb 5 02:26:35 2002 +++ openssh-3.1p1/readconf.c Wed Apr 3 23:34:34 2002 @@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ oKbdInteractiveAuthentication, oKbdInteractiveDevices, oHostKeyAlias, oDynamicForward, oPreferredAuthentications, oHostbas...

...on Linux, Solaris and HP-UX without problems. The patch can also be found on: http://charts.free.fr/openssh-3.0.1p1-timeout.patch Can someone tell we if such a patch can be included in the main tree ? PS: I did not suscribe to the list, so please cc: me regarding this patch -- Jean-Charles Longuet -------------- next part -------------- --- openssh-3.0.1p1/ssh.1.ORIG Sat Nov 17 23:07:02 2001 +++ openssh-3.0.1p1/ssh.1 Sat Nov 17 23:09:39 2001 @@ -804,6 +804,12 @@ The argument must be an integer. This may be useful in scripts if the connection sometimes fails. The default is 1. +.It Cm Conn...

This patch avoids spending too much time during connect() when doing an ssh()/scp() on a down host. It uses a new client option called ConnectTimeout and is useful for rsync or rdist commands using ssh(). See http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207 for detailled info. -------------- next part -------------- --- openssh-3.6.1p1/readconf.c.ORIG Tue Apr 15 23:06:30 2003 +++

Here is the version of this patch for the last portable version of OpenSSH (3.5p1), as it is not included in the main tree. The patch avoids waiting to long when using ssh() or scp() on a down host, it is usefull when you have to update many hosts via rsync or rdist themselves relying upon ssh(). It enables a new option 'ConnectTimeout' to control exactly the timeout value, so that it can

Here are the new versions of this widely used patch for OpenSSH 3.2.2p1 and 3.2.3p1. The patch avoids waiting to long when using ssh() or scp() on a down host, it is usefull when you have to update many hosts via rsync or rdist themselves relying upon ssh(). It enables a new option 'ConnectTimeout' to control exactly the timeout value, so that it can be used even on slow links. These