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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 fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

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.

set tunnel = CreateObject("Chilkat.SshTunnel")

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

sshPort = 22
success = tunnel.Connect("ssh.example.com",sshPort)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
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.
password = "mySshPassword"

success = tunnel.AuthenticatePw("mySshLogin",password)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

listenPort = 1080
success = tunnel.BeginAccepting(listenPort)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

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

'  Disconnect all current clients.  The listener keeps running and will accept new clients.
waitForThreads = 1
success = tunnel.DisconnectAllClients(waitForThreads)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

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

waitForThreadExit = 1
success = tunnel.CloseTunnel(waitForThreadExit)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If


outFile.Close