Does netmiko support Session Multiplexing?

[AuroraTea]

I want to maintain a TCP connection and reuse the same TCP connection for multiple SSH connections to the same host and user. If it's supported, how do I use it? If not supported, I am currently facing an issue where the keep_alive parameter seems ineffective, and I need to use is_alive to keep the connection alive manually. Is this normal?

[ktbyers]

@AuroraTea Netmiko does not support this natively though I would think you could implement over the top of Netmiko that manages and keeps connections alive.

You probably would need to test both keepalive and is_alive.

keepalive uses Paramiko's set_keepalive()

https://docs.paramiko.org/en/stable/api/transport.html#paramiko.transport.Transport.set_keepalive

I have definitely had issues with is_alive() at various points (basically to the extent that I have considered completely removing it).