Re: keep port alive?

"ivo welch" <ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu> wrote in message
news:5159bba2.0307161323.36048ffa@posting.google.c om

> Is there a program that I can run in the background (presumably as su,
> since it would have to intercede in my user's port affairs), which
> sends a ping-like request to any open tcp port with host x, with the
> sole purpose of keeping it alive, but not to interfere with it
> otherwise?

You might want to experiment with modifications to the hdxping-send perl script at
http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail...ne/000179.html after changing the getprotobyname() argument to 'tcp'.

tony

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