Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:04:45 -0700 (PDT) From: <kip@lyris.com> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9906011401430.6477-100000@luna> In-Reply-To: <000001beac71$af125a10$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to>
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This does make sense. I do some work on a mail server and I don't use keepalives because 2 hours is _too_much_ time to be wasting a descriptor. I periodically check how long a connection has been open and if it exceeds a certain amount I close the connection. -Kip On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > > I think he was suggesting that the apps close the connection if they > receive no data from some amount of time. (Isn't this common sense?) > > DS > > > On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:30:31PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > maybe we should fix our SERVER apps.. > > > e.g. telnetd, sshd, etc. to have 1 week timeouts > > > > IIRC, it is not possible to specify how long the keepalive interval > > should be, using the socket interface. Do you suggest we add a new > > interface not present in other Unix implementations, or that we make > > SO_KEEPALIVE always have a one-week timeout, surprising the other > > applications that expect it to be faster? > > > > Both of these seem remarkably unappealing to me. > > > > Matt > > > > -- > > Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Inertia is a property > > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * of matter. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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