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Date:      Tue, 02 Apr 1996 17:06:40 +0000
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SO_KEEPALIVE 
Message-ID:  <1208.828464800@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 1996 10:10:14 CST." <199604021610.KAA26215@brasil.moneng.mei.com> 

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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?
> > 
> > make a sysctl variable for this.  It's really easy.
> 
> Yeah, well, that's nice :-)  I wanted to know if there would be any general
> interest.  I'm not a kernel hacker so it would take a bit of expenditure of
> effort on my part to figure all that out, yadda yadda yadda, and if it was
> something that would not make it into -current, I would opt for a quick and
> dirty hack.
> 
> Can anyone suggest an appropriate name for such a variable?

	sysctl.inet.tcp.keepalive 
taking a boolean argument.
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