Feature Request : VPN keepalive

[Kevin Herring]

Hi

I do all my work over a VPN which has an annoyingly short timeout. In Putty and WinSCP there are options to send a null packet every 30 seconds or so to keep the connection alive. Would it be possible to add this option?

As a side issue, I think that plsql dev handles connections closing quite badly. For example: If I hibernate my machine, and then resume it, Developer thinks that the connection is still open, which is fair enough. I know it has closed so I select 'Log Off', The program usually freezes for a good 20-30 seconds whilst it waits for a timeout or something.

I do have the 'Check connection' option checked in my preferences.

 

[Marco Kalter]

The "Check Connection" option should do the trick. It checks every minute if the server is okay, which would also act as a "keepalive".

The 20-30 seconds delay is an Oracle issue. PL/SQL Developer again checks if the session is okay, but the reply from Oracle Net can take a long time in case of a network issue.