**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber@octodon.social · Oct 25, 2017, 20:08

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber@octodon.social · Oct 25, 2017, 20:08

Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber@octodon.social

Me seeing a ridiculous crime show: "The person is literally running a Matrix-style graphic on their computer, nobody does that when doing serious work, these writers know nothing about computers"

Me IRL: "I'm port forwarding via ssh so I don't want the connection to die, I'll run cmatrix"

**kaniini** @kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org · Oct 25, 2017, 20:10

**kaniini** @kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org · Oct 25, 2017, 20:10

@cwebber SSH has a keepalive setting you can turn on.

see "ServerAliveInterval" setting.

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber@octodon.social · Oct 25, 2017, 20:12

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber@octodon.social · Oct 25, 2017, 20:12

@kaniini ... that sounds dramatically more practical than what I'm doing

**Captain Poni 🛤️** @pony · Oct 25, 2017, 20:13

**Captain Poni 🛤️** @pony · Oct 25, 2017, 20:13

@cwebber @kaniini Yeah, I had a second clock in tmux for this purpose. It sounds silly, but it's actually a bit easier than just making sure you got the keepalive everywhere. (Especially given how ugly everything and illogical in Putty is.)

**kaniini** @kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org · Oct 25, 2017, 20:15

**kaniini** @kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org · Oct 25, 2017, 20:15

@pony @cwebber

oh. i've never used putty, just normal openssh :)

**Captain Poni 🛤️** @pony · 2017-10-25T20:18:58Z

Captain Poni 🛤️ @pony

@kaniini @cwebber I think I started doing it because of some HTML5 vte that maybe didn't even have that option.

(Why would I do something that silly? Well, I can easily go to almost any HTTPS server through the corporate firewall, while SSH would be nearly illegal hack.)

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**kaniini** @kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org · Oct 25, 2017, 20:22

**kaniini** @kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org · Oct 25, 2017, 20:22

@pony @cwebber

Hmm, maybe use sslh to forward traffic to either your httpd or openssh on port 443?

**Captain Poni 🛤️** @pony · Oct 25, 2017, 20:23

**Captain Poni 🛤️** @pony · Oct 25, 2017, 20:23

@kaniini @cwebber No, I can only reach the HTTPS servers through the proxy, obviously.

Also, this is no longer a problem, I started using a different vte that is not coupled with an ssh client, so this is no longer an issue. What is the problem now is Chrome pretty aggressively unloading tabs they don't look used :D

**kaniini** @kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org · Oct 25, 2017, 20:26

**kaniini** @kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org · Oct 25, 2017, 20:26

@pony @cwebber

this network setup sounds terrible

**Captain Poni 🛤️** @pony · Oct 25, 2017, 20:31

**Captain Poni 🛤️** @pony · Oct 25, 2017, 20:31

@kaniini @cwebber I'm not super happy about it, but it could still be much worse. Also, HTML5 terminals are surprisingly OK. Not great, but OK.

(Also, I could probably just tunnel through our semi-secret machine that has open network access, but I don't want to abuse it for personal stuff, because we also utterly rely on it for work stuff and I don't want to drag attention :D)