diff --git a/examples/client-push.js b/examples/client-push.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3125038
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/client-push.js
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import Consumer from '../src/consumer'
+
+// const client1= new Consumer({name:'example-consumer1' })
+const client= new Consumer({path:true, name:'example-consumer'})
+
+// let packet = {name: 'client', cmd:'doit', data:'data sent by client'}
+
+// This is your client handler object waiting on a message to do something
+const process = async function (packet) {
+  console.log('====== packet pushed from server ======')
+  console.dir(packet)
+}
+
+client.registerPacketProcessor(process)
+
+;
+(async () => {
+
+  client.connect()
+
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})
diff --git a/examples/server-push.js b/examples/server-push.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fcba02c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/server-push.js
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+import { Socket } from '../src'
+
+  ;
+(async () => {
+
+  class Test extends Socket {
+    constructor(opts) {
+      super(opts)
+    }
+
+    async _packetProcess(packet) {
+      console.log('packet being processed at socket')
+      if (packet.cmd) return await this[packet.cmd](packet.data,packet.name)
+      return  {error: 'no command in packet', packet: packet }
+    }
+
+    async doit(data,name) {
+      return new Promise(resolve => {
+        let res = {}
+        console.log('data sent to doit = ', data)
+        res.status ='success'
+        res.name = name
+        res.cmd = 'reply'
+        res.data = 'this would be response data from socket doit function'
+        resolve(res)
+      })
+
+    }
+
+  }
+
+  // let test = new Test()
+  let test = new Test({path:true})
+  await test.create()
+  setInterval( () => { test.push({name:'pushed', status:'some pushed data'}) },10000)
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d8db821..29b72f5 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@uci/socket",
-  "version": "0.1.4",
+  "version": "0.1.6",
   "description": "JSON packet intra(named)/inter(TCP) host communication over socket",
   "main": "src",
   "scripts": {
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@
     "testlog": "DEBUG=true mocha -r esm --timeout 10000 test/*.test.mjs",
     "testci": "istanbul cover ./node_modules/.bin/_mocha  --report lcovonly -- -R spec --recursive && codecov || true",
     "s": "DEBUG=true node -r esm examples/server",
+    "sp": "DEBUG=true node -r esm examples/server-push",
     "devs": "SOCKETS_DIR=/opt/sockets DEBUG=true ./node_modules/.bin/nodemon -r esm-e mjs  examples/server",
     "c": "DEBUG=true node -r esm examples/client",
+    "cp": "DEBUG=true node -r esm examples/client-push",
     "devc": "SOCKETS_DIR=/opt/sockets DEBUG=true node -r esm examples/client",
     "c2": "node -r esm examples/client2"
   },
diff --git a/src/consumer.js b/src/consumer.js
index fc7f31a..1696afd 100644
--- a/src/consumer.js
+++ b/src/consumer.js
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ export default class Consumer extends Socket {
       if (path.dirname(opts.path)==='.') opts.path = path.join(DEFAULT_PIPE_DIR,opts.path )
     }
     this.opts=opts
-    this.keepAlive = opts.keepAlive ? opts.keepAlive : true
+    this.keepAlive = 'keepAlive' in opts ? opts.keepAlive : true
     this._ready = false
     this.timeout = opts.timeout || 500
     this.wait = opts.wait || 5
@@ -66,18 +66,25 @@ export default class Consumer extends Socket {
       })
 
       this.on('error', async (err) => {
+        log.warn({error:err.code},`connect error ${err.code}`)
         if (err.code === 'EISCONN') {
           return resolve('ready')
         }
-        log.warn(err.code)
-        setTimeout(() =>{
-          // log.warn(`retrying connect to ${this.opts}`)
-          connect()
-        }
-          ,this.wait*100)
+
+        setTimeout( () =>{ connect() },this.wait*100)
+
       })
 
-      connect()
+      this.on('end', async () => {
+        log.warn('socket (server) terminated unexpectantly')
+        if (this.keepAlive) {
+          log.info('keep alive was set, so waiting on server to come online for reconnect')
+          this.destroy()
+          this.emit('error', {code:'DISCONNECTED'})
+        }
+      })
+
+      connect()  // initial connect request
 
     }) //end promise
 
diff --git a/src/socket.js b/src/socket.js
index b4268fa..417f137 100644
--- a/src/socket.js
+++ b/src/socket.js
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ export default class Socket extends Server {
         // recover from socket file that was not removed
         if (err.code === 'EADDRINUSE') {
           if (this.opts.path) { // if TCP socket should already be dead
-            let [err, res] = log.info(await btc(promisify(fileDelete))(this.opts.path))
+            let [err, res] = await btc(promisify(fileDelete))(this.opts.path)
             if(!err) {
               log.info({res:res, socket: this.opts.path}, 'socket already exists.....deleted')
               return await this._listen(this.opts)
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ export default class Socket extends Server {
 
   async push (packet,id) {
     packet._header = { id:'pushed'}
+    log.info({opts:this.opts,packet:packet},'pushing a packet to all connected consumers')
     this.clients.forEach(async (client) => {
       if (client.writable) {
         let [err, ser] = await btc(client.stream.serialize)(packet)