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Hi Andreas-- Sorry to take so long to respond to this feature request. It sounds like you're suggesting that redir use TCP keepalive settings. Note that this is different from openssh's ServerAliveInterval and ServerAliveCountMax settings, and more analogous to openssh's TCPKeepAlive option (man ssh_config for more details). the programming details of how this might be done are suggested here: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/TCP-Keepalive-HOWTO/ note that there are 3 prospective options for each connection (named here following the sysctl convention): * time: how long without data until we decide to try to send keepalive packets * intvl: how often we send them once they're being sent * probes: how many unacknowledged keepalives should trigger failure (plus, implicitly perhaps, whether we should bother with keepalive at all, which i'll treat as the time == 0 case). I'm concerned that the interface for redir is clumsy enough already, though. i don't want to introduce 6 additional potential arguments (3 for incoming, 3 for outgoing) to a program that's already on the edge of unwieldy. Have you considered using socat for your purposes? I note that socat contains options for all of these features. socat itself can be unwieldy, but it is far more thorough and flexible than redir in terms of what options it supports. You may also be interested in libkeepalive: http://libkeepalive.sourceforge.net/ which would let you add this functionality to any program (albeit in a cruder way: every socket would be set with the same keepalive settings). libkeepalive isn't in debian yet, but you could file an RFP for it (please cc me if you do this). Given these other options, if you still feel that this functionality belongs in redir, please followup here and we'll sort it out. Regards, --dkg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFGRVD0iXTlFKVLY2URAlPfAKDJ2NnLPs7AnbprvPNJ8sQ6x8AHWgCeKtLT N/nJD9XifCAZHP1f2pw5ggs= =ioBd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
