SSH client option to suppress server banners?

You can’t. (At least not with stock OpenSSH)

The server banner is sent by the server before authentication happens. It’s point is usually to contain a legal disclaimer or similar “If you’re not authorized disconnect NOW” type message, or other critical things you don’t want the remote user to be able to suppress/ignore.

If you really want to get rid of this you will need to hack and compile your own customized version of the SSH client.

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