On Jan 16, 2015, at 11:29 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote: >> >> A different fix is to exploit the real-time nature of video camera imagery > > Normally if you care about knowing if the other end of a connection is > gone you could enable keepalives on the socket That’s also an appropriate fix, especially when the protocol inherently has long periods of idle time, like SSH. In this particular case, I can’t see the need, unless the camera simply doesn’t transmit continuously. (Motion detection, intermittent activation, etc.)