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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

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