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

@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.)

@pony @cwebber

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

@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.)

@pony @cwebber

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

@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

@pony @cwebber

this network setup sounds terrible

@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)

@cwebber

I discovered it on holiday a few years ago to my grandparents farm which only had satellite.

The satellite modem would kill connections it saw as inactive to save data.

@kaniini I also use autossh, which is pretty nice

@cwebber @kaniini there's also mosh

@catalina @cwebber @kaniini mosh is great. Mosh and screen have a mighty synergy.

@cwebber (Ans keepalive; I forgot about that, since it's in my ssh_config)

@kellerfuchs because I apparently didn't realize there was a keepalive flag