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Hi openssh-unix-dev subscribers :) I have found that ServerAliveInterval & ServerAliveCountMax have some bug. Basically the ssh-alive check function (that verify the peer is alive) is called only if no data at all gets into ssh (when it should work only for server channel).I am pretty sure developers know about this ..anyway I have tried to fix this issue. Here is the patch: diff -rNu

...ar *display, SSH_X11_PROTO, x11_timeout_real, _PATH_DEVNULL); } - debug2("%s: %s", __func__, cmd); + debug2("%s: xauth command: %s", __func__, cmd); if (timeout != 0 && x11_refuse_time == 0) { now = monotime() + 1; @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ server_alive_check(struct ssh *ssh) (r = sshpkt_put_cstring(ssh, "keepalive at openssh.com")) != 0 || (r = sshpkt_put_u8(ssh, 1)) != 0 || /* boolean: want reply */ (r = sshpkt_send(ssh)) != 0) - fatal("%s: %s", __func__, ssh_err(r)); + fatal("%s: send packet: %s", __...

Hi, OpenSSH 8.0p1 is almost ready for release, so we would appreciate testing on as many platforms and systems as possible. Snapshot releases for portable OpenSSH are available from http://www.mindrot.org/openssh_snap/ The OpenBSD version is available in CVS HEAD: http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html Portable OpenSSH is also available via git using the instructions at