Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 14:01:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie, krowett@rowett.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@critter.freebsd.dk Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <199906042101.OAA03028@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.56.19990604111235.00ae3ac0@rowett.org>
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"Kevin J. Rowett" <krowett@rowett.org> writes: > The central issue of keepalives is that, for one machine, they don't > create a significant load. Multiplied by the number of machines on > the Internet, it can become a problem. No offense, but that is the most ludicrous assertion I've heard since Slobodan Milosevic claimed that all those bedraggled people streaming across the Albanian border were actually actors being paid $5.50 per day by NATO. Hint: If everybody turned on TCP keepalives, what percentage of the traffic on Internet backbones do you think would be keepalive packets? Jim Shankland NLynx Systems, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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