Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:09:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: half-close timeout in stateful ipfw Message-ID: <200103260709.JAA67488@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20010326100632.B97610@sunbay.com> from Ruslan Ermilov at "Mar 26, 2001 10:06:32 am"
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> > The request seems reasonable, so if there are no objections I > > would like to ask jordan permission to commit this to 4.3 > > > The right solution would be to use keepalives on the server. that's totally independent from this problem. In the case at hand, the timeout was so short that even a couple of failed retransmits would make it expire. Anyways, i think the right solution would be use keepalives in the firewall, which is, however, a bit harder to implement. cheers luigi ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . ACIRI/ICSI (on leave from Univ. di Pisa) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . 1947 Center St, Berkeley CA 94704 Phone (510) 666 2927 . ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message
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