[ucsdrake]

You might find it worth while to investigate mosh[0] as an alternative to OpenSSH.

[0] - https://mosh.mit.edu/

[philsnow]

mosh uses openssh (or some other ssh) under the covers to perform authn + authz and start the remote mosh server (and possibly to communicate the udp port that the remote mosh server is listening on to the client mosh?)