From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 1 15:32:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D677F15849 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 15:31:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id AAA07335 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 00:31:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id D051A87AE; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 00:13:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 00:13:50 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <19990602001350.A35065@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199906011851.MAA14756@mt.sri.com> <19990601130331.A21176@wopr.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <19990601130331.A21176@wopr.caltech.edu>; from Matthew Hunt on Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:03:31PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT/ELF ctm#5322 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Matthew Hunt: > I'm thinking of long-lived connections like telnet and ssh; if you're FWIW ssh has been using keelalives for a long time by default... KeepAlive Specifies whether the system should send keepalive messages to the other side. If they are sent, death of the connection or crash of one of the machines will be properly noticed. However, this means that connections will die if the route is down temporarily, and some people find it annoying. The default is "yes" (to send keepalives), and the client will notice if the network goes down or the remote host dies. This is important in scripts, and many users want it too. To disable keepalives, the value should be set to "no" in both the server and the client configura- tion files. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #71: Sun May 9 20:16:32 CEST 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message