Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 12:10:30 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SO_KEEPALIVE Message-ID: <199604021810.MAA26692@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199604020219.IAA09867@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Apr 2, 96 08:19:46 am
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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. Similar problem; Portmasters. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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