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Date:      Mon, 7 Jun 1999 19:11:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? 
Message-ID:  <199906080211.TAA31558@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <99Jun7.152505est.40335@border.alcanet.com.au>  <199906080142.VAA60319@whizzo.transsys.com>

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: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."
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:louie

    The technical term in thousands of pages of literature with millions of 
    copies in print or on disk is "keepalive".

					-Matt


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