From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 2 14: 5:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B51EE15434 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 14:05:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA47058; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 14:01:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 14:01:08 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Andre Oppermann Cc: David Schwartz , Julian Elischer , Poul-Henning Kamp , kip@lyris.com, Nate Williams , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <19990602140108.A47013@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <19990601134232.A22685@wopr.caltech.edu> <000001beac71$af125a10$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> <19990601140146.A23081@wopr.caltech.edu> <37559B01.23719902@pipeline.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37559B01.23719902@pipeline.ch>; from Andre Oppermann on Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 10:58:41PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 10:58:41PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Matthew Hunt wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:59:48PM -0700, 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?) > > > > No, I frequently keep telnet/ssh connections idle for long periods, > > and have no particular desire for them to close on me. > > They don't close on you because keepalive would succeed. It would > only drop your connection after the keepalive times out when you become > unreachable by IP. That's how keepalives work. My understanding is that David Schwartz's comment referred to application idle timeouts, not keepalives. -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message