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From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Doug Barton wrote:

> I agree on the need for LB's to do things right, but they aren't just for
> helping MS software. :)

I understand, but I would bet there's been at least a quadrupling of
machines backing hotmail/msn since they moved to windows... :)

> I'm curious about whether keepalives help this situation. What does
> net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive say?

It's on now, and was previously:

net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive: 1

The tunables related to it are defaults:

net.inet.tcp.keepidle: 7200000
net.inet.tcp.keepintvl: 75000

Thanks,

Charles

> Doug
>
> --
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>     "The last time France wanted more evidence, it rolled right
>         through Paris with a German flag." - David Letterman
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