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Date:      Tue, 2 Apr 1996 08:19:46 +0600 (ESD)
From:      "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
To:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SO_KEEPALIVE
Message-ID:  <199604020219.IAA09867@hq.icb.chel.su>
In-Reply-To: <199604011838.MAA24760@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Apr 1, 96 12:38:39 pm

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> 
> Question, stupid, nonetheless a question:
> 
> Does anybody see any advantage to allowing for a way to set a systemwide
> SO_KEEPALIVE default of ON?

If you have PCs connected via network using rlogin or telnet and their
users just turn them off without normal logout you get lots of hanging
connections. SO_KEEPALIVE must be very useful here.

-SB



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