Visual Basic 6.0

Disconnect All SSH Tunnel Clients

Demonstrates the Chilkat SshTunnel.DisconnectAllClients method, which disconnects all active tunnel clients while leaving the listener and SSH connection available. The only argument (waitForThreads) selects whether to wait for the client threads to exit.

Background: This is the complement of StopAccepting: it clears out current clients but keeps accepting new ones, so the listener and SSH transport stay up. It is useful for forcibly resetting stuck or unwanted connections without tearing down the whole tunnel — for example, dropping all sessions before a maintenance action while leaving the tunnel ready to serve fresh connections immediately afterward.

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Dim success As Long
success = 0

'  Demonstrates the SshTunnel.DisconnectAllClients method, which disconnects all active tunnel
'  clients while leaving the listener and SSH connection available.  The only argument
'  (waitForThreads) selects whether to wait for the client threads to exit.

Dim tunnel As New ChilkatSshTunnel

tunnel.DestHostname = "db.internal.example.com"
tunnel.DestPort = 5432

Dim sshPort As Long
sshPort = 22
success = tunnel.Connect("ssh.example.com",sshPort)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print tunnel.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
'  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
Dim password As String
password = "mySshPassword"

success = tunnel.AuthenticatePw("mySshLogin",password)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print tunnel.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim listenPort As Long
listenPort = 1080
success = tunnel.BeginAccepting(listenPort)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print tunnel.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  ... clients connect and transfer data ...

'  Disconnect all current clients.  The listener keeps running and will accept new clients.
Dim waitForThreads As Long
waitForThreads = 1
success = tunnel.DisconnectAllClients(waitForThreads)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print tunnel.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print "All current clients disconnected; still accepting new ones."

Dim waitForThreadExit As Long
waitForThreadExit = 1
success = tunnel.CloseTunnel(waitForThreadExit)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print tunnel.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If