test for connection timeout?

[Brandon McCombs <bmccombs@ma.rr.com>]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me whether OpenLDAP has provisions for a client to 
determine whether a connection has timed out proactively instead of 
alerting a user that the connection has been closed due to timeout only 
after they attempt an operation? If not then I'll know I will have to 
roll my own method of keeping the connection alive through a periodic 
query of some sort.

thanks