Rsync connection times out on very large --files-from

[Eli]

I wrote: 
> I'm assuming this is just a standard 60 second tcp connection 
> timeout problem, but I see no way to implement keepalives or 
> anything on the connection to prevent it from dropping.  Any 
> ideas?  Is this really possible?

I missed the ability to set socket options at the daemon level in
rsyncd.conf.  Setting "socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE=1" in the daemon config
file fixes the timeouts (duh!) :)

Eli.