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Date:      Fri, 4 Jun 1999 18:46:41 -0700
From:      "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To:        "Matthew Dillon" <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? 
Message-ID:  <000501beaef5$42938fe0$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to>
In-Reply-To: <199906050124.SAA10395@apollo.backplane.com>

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	You know, I was going to buy a pickup truck, but I was afraid my neighbors
would figure that if I bought a pickup truck, they should buy one too. And
maybe a pickup truck isn't the right vehicle for them -- perhaps they didn't
even know how to drive one safely. So I bought an Explorer instead.

	DS

> :That's an excellent point!  People with less correct
> implementations of TCP
> :keepalives will use freeBSD's justification as their justification for
> :turning on TCP keepalives by default.
>
>     Umm... that is about as twisted a reasoning as I could
> imagine.  I don't
>     consider it a useful argument.  The sky might be falling too,
> better not
>     go outside!
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon
> 					<dillon@backplane.com>



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