Have to reconnect each time while running debugging maven remotely?

Hello,
Due to legacy reasons we have forkMode set to 'pertest' in our pom. This
configuration can't be changed. However when I remote debug in eclipse(or
command line) I use `"-Dmaven.surefire.debug="-Xdebug
-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=8000 -Xnoagent
-Djava.compiler=NONE" test -DforkMode=never"`. I then connect to port 8000
from eclipse. However since forkMode is set to pertest each time a jvm is
spawned to run a test which means that I have to remote connect every time
to keep the test running and I have over 3000 tests. The -DforkMode=never
never takes effect and is overridden with what is the in the pom. Is this
the right behavior? What can I do to have the remote debugger reconnect even
if the jvm forks?