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Article: 12466 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: testing a TCP port and logging response
Date: 22 May 2001 11:57:04 GMT
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In article <3B09F5B7.A623B8AF@adelaide.edu.au>,
Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
: Hi, thanks for the quick response. kermit -h didn't suggest the -C
: option.
:
: If the SET HOST command times out, one would get an error indication
: eventually, but if one was wanting to get a success/failure indication a
: few seconds after the SET HOST was issued, could C-Kermit provide the
: means to do this? The purpose of this is to check for a TCP service that
: has "hung" and provide the means to quickly take fail-over action.
:
: Regards,
:
: Arthur.
Kermit cannot control how long it takes the TCP/IP stack to make a
connection to a host. If the service is there, response will be very
fast. If the service is not there, then it can take a while.
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer C-Kermit 7.1 Alpha available
The Kermit Project @ Columbia University includes Secure Telnet and FTP
http://www.kermit-project.org/ using Kerberos, SRP, and
kermit-support@kermit-project.org OpenSSL. SSH soon to follow.