From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 5 17:44:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.42.org (matrix.42.org [194.246.250.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAADA14DEF for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 17:44:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sec@42.org) Received: (from sec@localhost) by matrix.42.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id CAA19459 (sender ); Sun, 6 Jun 1999 02:44:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 02:44:21 +0200 From: Stefan `Sec` Zehl To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <19990606024421.D17345@matrix.42.org> References: <199906042226.PAA02634@peterw.yahoo.com> <54651.928560942@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <54651.928560942@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:37:57AM +0200 I-love-doing-this: really Accept-Languages: de, en X-URL: http://sec.42.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:37:57AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > QED: The following patch. [...] > +tcp_keepalive="YES" # Kill dead TCP connections (or NO). I still don't understand why you insist on making it YES by default. It works fine like it is for most of the people right now. So why shouldn't the few servers which have problems without it, enable it? Make it a knob in rc.conf but off by default. As I understand it, It suffices if the server requests the keepalives. So if every FreeBSD-box has it on by default, I simply can not choose to have no keepalifes anymore, even if I turn them off locally. So this change is going to hurt somebody, somewhere. CU, Sec -- One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had now way to indicate successful termination of their C Programs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message