From owner-cvs-all Thu Dec 6 12: 5:44 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from niwun.pair.com (niwun.pair.com [209.68.2.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 829A937B419 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:05:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 58806 invoked by uid 3193); 6 Dec 2001 20:05:35 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Dec 2001 20:05:35 -0000 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:05:35 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Silbersack X-Sender: To: Robert Watson Cc: , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 tuning.7 In-Reply-To: <200112061957.fB6JvYu71713@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Robert Watson wrote: > rwatson 2001/12/06 11:57:34 PST > > Modified files: > share/man/man7 tuning.7 > Log: > Moderate the recommendation that TCP keepalives always be turned on; > in some environments, this may result in the early termination of > legitimate TCP sessions during temporary network outages. However, > maintain a strong recommendation that this be used when many network > clients are dialup. > > Requested by: fenner > > Revision Changes Path > 1.25 +13 -10 src/share/man/man7/tuning.7 The default is currently on, so there's no need to make such a recommendation. FWIW, the default interval is 2 hours - you're going to run into many serious problems before falsely terminated connections are a problem. I'd suggest just removing the whole mention of keepalives completely. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message