From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 5 17:43:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hydrogen.fircrest.net (metriclient-3.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431A714CBE for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 17:43:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.fircrest.net (8.9.1/8.8.7) id RAA05915; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 17:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990605174323.10313@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 17:43:23 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Garrett Wollman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? References: <199906051833.LAA15517@apollo.backplane.com> <199906052344.TAA19843@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199906052344.TAA19843@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:44:40PM -0400 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett Wollman scribbled this message on Jun 5: > < 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!) yes, but are routers normally down for a couple hours?? if they are, you have other problems than worring about connections... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message