SSH and break key

[Gary Hines]

Hi,
I'm using Reflections to log into our HP system. When going in via Telnet, the F5 key works great for a break key. However, when I go in via SSH, nothing works. Is there a way to reliably configure a break key for SSH access? Thanks for any help.

[Mancboy]

It seems that ssh isn't quite ready for the BREAK signal :-(

The SSH commitee has requested this functionality and it doesn't look to fully done yet.

The man page on my sun box supports it, but on the HP box it doesn't (Sun SSH and HPUX OpenSSH).

To check if you've got it or not type ~?, it will show "~B - send break" if it is supported by the client - you then need to try it, to see if the server supports it.

From the man page on the sun box:
~? Display a list of escape characters.
~B Send a BREAK to the remote system (only useful for SSH protocol version 2 and if the peer supports it).