Hello,
I am planning on setting up a TCP tunnel through an SSH connection between our Korean office's intranet and our US office's intranet. This tunnel will be used to provide a connection between a Perforce Proxy server in Korea and our main Perforce server (Redhat 9) in the US.
The OS for Korean proxy server will be Redhat FC3 using OpenSSH. I may have to give up this server at some point in the future and go Windows as the underlying OS, if that happens I would like to use Plink (from the maker of PuTTY http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/).
I plan to set up the account used to connect our SSH server to a pretty restricted state; no login shell and port forwarding restricted to a specific ip:port.
I am planning to script the SSH connection on the client side to reconnect should the connection drop. This should be a fairly trivial task. Unfortunately I have seen long running SSH tunnels in a state where they appear to be connected but no data flows through the tunnel or to the login shell. I would like test for this condition in my script but I am unsure which approach to take.
I could conceivably try to connect through the tunnel to the server using some utility but which one? I could conceivable try using the Perforce client but would rather not consume a license to do this. Perhaps I could open have a second tunnel open just to test the connection, but what would be good to use?
Best regards,
Bruce McPeek
