Re: [rdesktop-users] timeout

[Mrs. B. <mrs...@ni...>]

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 05:35, Justin Fretwell wrote:
> > ./rdesktop 192.168.1.55
> > server bpp 8 client bpp 16 depth 16
> > Trying 192.168.1.55...
> > -- blocks for a rather long time- as expected; 55 doesn't have any
> > machine listening there.
> 
> this is the problem i am having.  It times out eventually but its takes far 
> far too long.  the users that will be using my clients are not having access 
> to command line so i need a fairly quick timeout.

This is TCP related. There really isn't a lot you can do besides:
1. lower the timeout in your operating system (dangerous!)
2. use an alarm clock.



You _might_ try using a shell script to sanitize the rdesktop IP
address. Something that looks like this:

----
#!/bin/sh
ip=$1
args=""
shift
while test "X$1" != "X"
do
	args="$args $ip"
	ip="$1"
	shift
done

if ping -w1 -c1 $ip >/dev/null 2>&1
then
	rdesktop $args $ip
else
	echo "Ping failed"
fi