Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 14:03:54 +0400 From: Dmitrij Tejblum <dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <199906081003.OAA01389@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jun 1999 21:42:28 EDT." <199906080142.VAA60319@whizzo.transsys.com>
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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 disagree. I use keepalive exactly to keep my connections (mostly ssh sessions) alive. The sysadmin of our corporate LAN made our router drop all connections idle for 15 minutes or so. As I understand, the router send fake RST packets. The sysadmin believe that it increase security. I tried to convince him to not do it, I tried to kill him, but didn't succeed. So, now I set net.inet.tcp.keepidle to a really low value, and it keeps my connections alive! Dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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