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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 Boolean = False

'  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 Chilkat.SshTunnel

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

Dim sshPort As Integer = 22
success = tunnel.Connect("ssh.example.com",sshPort)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(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 = "mySshPassword"

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


Dim listenPort As Integer = 1080
success = tunnel.BeginAccepting(listenPort)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(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 Boolean = True
success = tunnel.DisconnectAllClients(waitForThreads)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.WriteLine("All current clients disconnected; still accepting new ones.")

Dim waitForThreadExit As Boolean = True
success = tunnel.CloseTunnel(waitForThreadExit)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If