From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 5 16:44:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E49151FE for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 16:44:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA19843; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 19:44:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 19:44:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199906052344.TAA19843@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Brian Feldman Cc: Matthew Dillon , David Schwartz , Peter Wemm , Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? In-Reply-To: References: <199906051833.LAA15517@apollo.backplane.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > FWIW, I think only a fool would want a computer to NOT drop dead connections. > Any "connection" that doesn't respond after 8 $^&! tries spaced FAR apart does > NOT deserve to stay. If they are spaced too far apart, it is possible for perfectly legitimate connections to get shot down as a result of external periodicities. (Does somebody's router reset every day at 2:45? If so, better hope no keepalives are scheduled for then!) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message