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Date:      Mon, 07 Jun 1999 21:42:28 -0400
From:      "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? 
Message-ID:  <199906080142.VAA60319@whizzo.transsys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jun 1999 15:41:09 %2B1000." <99Jun7.152505est.40335@border.alcanet.com.au> 
References:  <99Jun7.152505est.40335@border.alcanet.com.au> 

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> There's also the the minor nit that there's no documentation.  RTSL
> may be OK for developers, but it's not really appropriate for end
> users.  This is aggravated by the timers being in 500ms units - phk
> tripped over this recently.

Before documenting it, how about we fix it's name to be more accurate
to newcomers: net.inet.tcp.always_makedead, etc.  There's no part of
this (in many cases misguided) mechanism that keeps anything "alive."

louie




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