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Date:      Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:07:40 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Simon Walton <simonw@matteworld.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Long keepidle time
Message-ID:  <20060830030439.B86833@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <44E0C3AC.7030603@matteworld.com>
References:  <44DD1909.40703@matteworld.com> <20060811203041.E44075@odysseus.silby.com> <44E0C3AC.7030603@matteworld.com>

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On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Simon Walton wrote:

>  Thanks. I did not go with ipfw2 partly because of concerns about
> whether it was stable enough (this is on 4.10) and also because
> it requires rebuilding part of userland. Perhaps this would
> be the way to go after all.

The only way you'll know is to try it. :)

>  Note that the probes are retransmitted a few times (I think eight times)
> before the connection is considered dead, so it would take longer
> than two minutes.
>
> Simon Walton

True, I had forgotten about that fact.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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