Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 22:17:16 +0000 (GMT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: loverso@sitaranetworks.com (John R. LoVerso), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <199906042217.PAA22772@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <4932.928518962@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jun 4, 1999 07:56:02 pm"
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> In message <37580F03.88EFB07A@sitara.net>, "John R. LoVerso" writes: > > >But, consider going back to the discusssions leading up to the Host Requirements > >RFC (1122). The particular problem was that the original timeout value for > >keepalives was tiny (a few minutes). 1122 dictated the corrections for this. > >Here are the important points from section 4.2.3.6: > > But RFC 1122 pretty much entirely predates the "modern internet user". While > I fully supported the policy back then, I no longer do. > > I still think the right thing is: > > default to keepalives. > set the timeout to a week. Then lets go off a write RFCxxxx and get RFC1123 off the books, it's way over due for an overhaul anyway. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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