From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 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:
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.
Thank you very much for the information. Regards, Fran
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
It should work however it isn't supported of course.