Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:00:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: kuebart@mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Joachim Kuebart) To: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <9906080900.AA05715@turing.mathematik.uni-ulm.de> In-Reply-To: <199906080142.VAA60319@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at "Jun 7, 99 09:42:28 pm"
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Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > 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." I believe the rationale behind the nomenclature is to ``keep alive [connections]'', as opposed to keeping ``dead'' connections (whatever they are). cu Jo --------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP Key is at <http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/~kuebart/kuebart.asc>; What am I doing here? God, these people drinking milk! But the clothes they wear look rather cool to me. Joachim Kuebart I wear the same -- what am I doing here? Ulm, Germany --- Banana Fishbones To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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