From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 8 3: 8: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from helios.dnttm.ru (dnttm-gw.rssi.ru [193.232.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14EFF150B8 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 03:03:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by helios.dnttm.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1/IP-3) with UUCP id NAA28322; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 13:58:08 +0400 Received: from tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA01389; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 14:03:54 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru) Message-Id: <199906081003.OAA01389@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jun 1999 21:42:28 EDT." <199906080142.VAA60319@whizzo.transsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 14:03:54 +0400 From: Dmitrij Tejblum Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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