ssh keepalives

[Chuck Swiger]

Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> On 9 Jul 2003 at 20:24, Paulius Bulotas boldly uttered: 
>>a bit late answer, but I'm not able to keep up with my email traffic ;)
>>
>>Apply this patch to OpenSSH, if you are running FreeBSD:
>>http://www.sc.isc.tohoku.ac.jp/~hgot/sources/openssh-watchdog.html
[ ... ]
> Considering that the author of the patch greatly discourages usage of 
> the older OpenSSH code, and considering that my recently updated 4.8-
> STABLE box is still using OpenSSH 3.5p1 rather than the latest 3.6p1 
> mentioned in the patch, I'm a little disinclined to do this patch 
> because I'll have to re-patch it every time I build/install world.
> 
> If there's any possibility this patch will make it into the 
> mainstream distribution I'll just wait for that.  Will wait and see, 
> but thanks very much for the tip!

Why not add the patch mentioned above to /usr/ports/security/openssh/files, and 
then build openssh-3.6p1 as a package?  When you installworld, re-add this 
package afterwards...

-- 
-Chuck