Mercurial > dropbear
diff dropbear.8 @ 454:7e43f5e473b9
- Add -K keepalive flag for dropbear and dbclient
- Try to reduce the frequency of select() timeouts
- Add a max receive window size of 1MB
| author | Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au> |
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| date | Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:12:06 +0000 |
| parents | 3e6c536bc023 |
| children | b85507ade010 |
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--- a/dropbear.8 Sat Jul 28 08:59:24 2007 +0000 +++ b/dropbear.8 Wed Aug 08 15:12:06 2007 +0000 @@ -87,6 +87,13 @@ Specify the per-channel receive window buffer size. Increasing this may improve network performance at the expense of memory use. Use -h to see the default buffer size. +.TP +.B \-K \fItimeout_seconds +Ensure that traffic is transmitted at a certain interval in seconds. This is +useful for working around firewalls or routers that drop connections after +a certain period of inactivity. The trade-off is that a session may be +closed if there is a temporary lapse of network connectivity. A setting +if 0 disables keepalives. .SH AUTHOR Matt Johnston ([email protected]). .br