Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 12:38:39 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: SO_KEEPALIVE Message-ID: <199604011838.MAA24760@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Question, stupid, nonetheless a question: Does anybody see any advantage to allowing for a way to set a systemwide SO_KEEPALIVE default of ON? My reason for asking: from time to time, I run into situations where software does not correctly terminate connections, most often due to broken Portmasters or broken TCP/IP implementations. For example, smp 2983 0.0 0.0 412 348 ?? I 13Mar96 0:01.79 -ws1-6.gmttech.ods.net: smp: STOR test.zip (ftpd) or the dozens of hung nnrp processes that get into write() and never get out on daily-planet.execpc.com. My usual fix is to patch the source to enable KEEPALIVE... I don't mind a local kernel patch but it seems to me that many ISP's might find this useful. ... JG
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