How do you know when you've lost connection?

[Eric N. <eni...@cp...>]

Everything is running smoothly with Perl-LDAP.  After working with
Netscape's perldap I've found this stuff to be much easier to work with.

I do have one quick question.  I've got pretty poor connections here and
have often lost my LDAP connections.  Is there anyway for Perl-LDAP to tell
me if the connection is down?

Historically what I've seen is that on my next ldap search after a
disconnection I get an LDAP_LOCAL_ERROR
Thanks
Eric