From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 2 10:15:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA12801 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 10:15:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA12792 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 10:15:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id MAA26692; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 12:10:30 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199604021810.MAA26692@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: SO_KEEPALIVE To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 12:10:30 -0600 (CST) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604020219.IAA09867@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Apr 2, 96 08:19:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. Similar problem; Portmasters. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968