From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 4 18:46:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508E614D1F for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 18:46:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 18:46:42 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Matthew Dillon" Cc: Subject: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 18:46:41 -0700 Message-ID: <000501beaef5$42938fe0$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <199906050124.SAA10395@apollo.backplane.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message