Re: Tramp timeout for currently unreachable connections?

[Michael Albinus]

Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello all,

Hi Visuwesh,

> I know that non-essential=t prevents Tramp from establishing new
> connections but is there a way to make Tramp use a very short timeout
> when trying to connect to a previously established connection that is
> now unreachable?  What I mean is: if I am connected to a remote host via
> a ssh connection /ssh:user@remote: and my internet connection goes down,
> I do not want Tramp trying to fetch remote resources forever.

Use 'M-x tramp-cleanup-connection'. Play with user option 
`tramp-connection-timeout'.

> Thank you.

Best regards, Michael.