Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:25:08 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Leif Neland <leif@neland.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not a default number of pings? Message-ID: <20000117162508.D16038@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <01dd01bf6145$e13d6c80$0e00a8c0@neland.dk>; from leifn@neland.dk on Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 12:51:26AM %2B0100 References: <01dd01bf6145$e13d6c80$0e00a8c0@neland.dk>
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* Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> [000117 16:16] wrote: > 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=3600 in make.conf or so? > > I've supplied patches earlier, but they've been rejected. Please provide a reference to the PR you submitted and I'll have a look. I don't think this modification will go in unless it's based on the 'MAX_PING=3600' idea with a default for infinity. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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