From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 17 15:52: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from arnold.neland.dk (mail.neland.dk [194.255.12.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F1A1503C for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:51:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from gina (gina.neland.dk [192.168.0.14]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA59497 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:51:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Message-ID: <01dd01bf6145$e13d6c80$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> Reply-To: "Leif Neland" From: "Leif Neland" To: Subject: Why not a default number of pings? Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:51:26 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been hit by a "forgotten ping" again. I still do not see a reason for not having a default number of pings, = instead of infinite. The only reason I've seen is "It's always been so". Even if a default of 4 pings is not acceptable, because windows does it = that way, why not a large default then? If somebody _really_ want to ping forever, let them use -t0, and defend = the rest of us from our blunders of forgetting a ping, keeping the line = open infinitely. How about a MAX_PING=3D3600 in make.conf or so? I've supplied patches earlier, but they've been rejected. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message