Re: consolue -u stops, gets Connection timed out

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 17:22 -0600, Nathan Straz wrote:
> I see something like this on my Linux server running conserver
> (8.1.14)
> every now and again.  I think I narrowed it down to when a conserver
> client is connected over a VPN connection and the VPN goes away.  It
> usually shows up as a write back to the conserver client is stuck.
> Sometimes I can ping the dead client's address and the conserver
> process
> will free up and continue.


> 

One thing I've done and you can debate about the drawbacks is adjust my
keep alive times in the Linux kernel so that the "client" will drop
within a few minutes of a downed connection.  When I say "client" I'm
referring to my Console.pm perl module that is used by applications to
connect to remote consoles.  I don't use the official client that
often :).  Since the client can wait on read() until the keep alive
passes much like telnet adjusting those values allows it to notice a bad
VPN connection and attempt to reopen.  The VPNs _do_ go down and I need
the client to see this fast and do a new connect.