diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh-config.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh-config.bb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2ef6a770fcfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh-config.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+SUMMARY = "OE openssh configuration"
+DESCRIPTION = "Provides openssh configuration snippets which correspond to IMAGE_FEATURE"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
+
+SRC_URI = "\
+    file://80-oe.conf \
+"
+
+do_install() {
+    d=${D}${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config.d
+    install -d "$d"
+    install -p -m 0644 \
+        ${WORKDIR}/80-oe.conf \
+        "$d"/
+}
+
+python populate_packages:prepend() {
+    dir = d.expand('${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config.d')
+
+    do_split_packages(d, dir, '^60-(.*)\.conf',
+                      output_pattern='${PN}-%s',
+                      description="openssh config for '%s' feature",
+                      extra_depends='',
+                      prepend=True)
+}
+
+PACKAGES_DYNAMIC = "${PN}-*"
+
+FILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config.d/80-oe.conf"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh-config/80-oe.conf b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh-config/80-oe.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9a92d3c8d197
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh-config/80-oe.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+KbdInteractiveAuthentication no
+
+Compression no
+ClientAliveInterval 15
+ClientAliveCountMax 4
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb
index d500ca6019fe..406b349f8283 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb
@@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ RCONFLICTS:${PN}-sshd = "dropbear"
 CONFFILES:${PN}-sshd = "${sysconfdir}/ssh/sshd_config"
 CONFFILES:${PN}-ssh = "${sysconfdir}/ssh/ssh_config"
 
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "openssh-config"
+
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "90"
 ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-scp = "scp"
 ALTERNATIVE:${PN}-ssh = "ssh"