Date: 05 Jun 1999 22:50:11 -0500 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: "Kevin J. Rowett" <krowett@rowett.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <86n1yec7ik.fsf@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: "Kevin J. Rowett"'s message of "Fri, 04 Jun 1999 11:20:34 -0700" References: <9906041725.aa11603@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <4.2.0.56.19990604111235.00ae3ac0@rowett.org>
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> The central issue of keepalives is that, for one machine, they don't create > a significant load. Multiplied by the number of machines on the Internet, > it can become a problem. Divided by the combined bandwidth of the networks these machines are using, it ceases to be a problem. joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the messagehelp
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