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.TH AAN 8 .SH NAME aan, aanuke \- always available network .SH SYNOPSIS .B aan .B -c [ .B -d ] [ .B -m maxto ] .I dialstring .br .B aan [ .B -d ] [ .B -m maxto ] .I netdir .br .B aanuke .SH DESCRIPTION .I Aan tunnels traffic between a client and a server through a persistent network connection. If the connection breaks (voluntarily or due to networking problems), the .I aan client re-establishes the connection by redialing the server. .PP .I Aan uses a unique protocol to make sure no data is ever lost even when the connection breaks. After a reconnection, .I aan retransmits all unacknowledged data between client and server. .PP A connection can be broken voluntarily (e.g. by roaming over IP networks), or a connection can break when the IP service is unreliable. In either case, .I aan re-establishes the client's connection automatically. .PP When the server part has not heard from the client in .I maxto seconds, the server part of .I aan exits. The default .I maxto is one day. The client side (option .BR -c ) calls the server by its .IR dialstring , while the server side listens for connections in the already-announced network directory .IR netdir . .PP .I Aan is usually run automatically through the .B -p option of rimport, rexport and .IR rcpu (1). .PP .I Aanuke prints commands that will cause all processes called .I aan that are owned by the current user and do not have an active tcp connection to be terminated. Use the .B send command of .IR rio (1), or pipe the output of .I kill into .IR rc (1) to execute the commands. .SH EXAMPLES Assume the server part of .I aan is encapsulated in .I exportfs on the machine .B sob and started through .B aux/listen as follows: .IP .EX netdir=`{echo $3 | sed 's;/[0-9]+$;!*!0;'} exec exportfs -a -A $netdir .EE .PP Then machine .BR astro6 's name space can be imported through .I aan using this command: .IP .EX import -p astro6 / /mnt/term .EE .PP Kill idle instances of .I aan left behind by a terminal that has been powered off: .IP .EX aanuke | rc .EE .SH FILES .TF /sys/log/aan .TP .B /sys/log/aan Log file .SH SOURCE .B /sys/src/cmd/aan.c .br .B /rc/bin/aanuke .SH SEE ALSO .IR exportfs (4), .IR rcpu (1) .SH HISTORY .I Aanuke first appeared in 9front (April, 2014).