From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 4 15:20:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E3F15450 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:20:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA22772; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:17:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrimes) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199906042217.PAA22772@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? In-Reply-To: <4932.928518962@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jun 4, 1999 07:56:02 pm" To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 22:17:16 +0000 (GMT) Cc: loverso@sitaranetworks.com (John R. LoVerso), current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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