From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 7 19:11:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3FB815878 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 19:11:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA31558; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 19:11:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 19:11:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199906080211.TAA31558@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? References: <99Jun7.152505est.40335@border.alcanet.com.au> <199906080142.VAA60319@whizzo.transsys.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :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 The technical term in thousands of pages of literature with millions of copies in print or on disk is "keepalive". -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message