Bug 155896

Summary:	ConnectTimeout option not available
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Francisco Jorge <franjorge>
Component:	openssh	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Francisco Jorge 2005-04-25 14:54:26 UTC

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Description of problem:
I would like to use the ssh 'ConnectTimeout' option, but I always receive an error when I try to:

ssh  -o ConnectTimeout=2 1.1.1.1
command-line: line 0: Bad configuration option: ConnectTimeout

Why is this option not available? Is there any way to enable it? Will it be supported in this or any RH Linux distribution?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
OpenSSH_3.6.1p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090701f

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type
ssh  -o ConnectTimeout=2 1.1.1.1
  

Actual Results:  You get the error.


Expected Results:  Establish the connection timeout to 2 seconds.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2005-04-25 15:17:32 UTC

This option is available in RHEL 4 - where is openssh version 3.9p1.

This option is not supported by openssh version 3.6.1p2 which is in RHEL3.

Comment 2 Francisco Jorge 2005-04-25 15:39:55 UTC

Thank you very much for the information.

Regards,
Fran

Comment 3 Francisco Jorge 2005-04-26 07:37:45 UTC

Just another question. We do need this option in our ssh client. We have 
thought about compiling a newer version of ssh in our RHE AS v3. Do you think 
that would work?

Thanks,
Fran

Comment 4 Tomas Mraz 2005-04-26 07:44:44 UTC

It should work however it isn't supported of course.