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Date:      Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:06:57 +0100
From:      "Richard Smith" <rdls@satamatics.com>
To:        "Ruslan Ermilov" <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        <net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: sysctls keepidle and keepintvl
Message-ID:  <703AB71471B6024CB86D219058DB64FB021F0D@matrix.satamatics.net>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruslan Ermilov [mailto:ru@FreeBSD.ORG]
> Sent: 10 July 2001 10:02
> To: Richard Smith
> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: sysctls keepidle and keepintvl
>=20
>=20
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:05:13PM +0100, Richard Smith wrote:
> > Please cc me, as I'm not on this list.
> >=20
> > I am using 4.3-RELEASE, and investigating why I don't see
> > any keepalives (using tcpdump) on my connections.
> >=20
> > The default values are as follows:
> > 	net.inet.tcp.keepidle =3D 7200000
> > 	net.inet.tcp.keepintvl =3D 75000
> >=20
> > It seems to me that the keepalive interval is being set
> > by keepidle, thus setting keepidle =3D 20000, generates=20
> > keepalives at 20s intervals.
> >=20
> > Looking at the comments in tcp_var.h, it should be=20
> > keepintvl that sets this interval. Otherwise, why
> > have such a large value for keepidle?
> >=20
> > Is this a bug? Or have I missed something,
> >=20
> Only TCP sockets marked with SO_KEEPALIVE setsockopt(2) will
> be kept alive.  Alternatively, you can enable this option on
> all sockets implicitly by net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive=3D1.
> (Or by setting tcp_keepalive rc.conf(5) variable to "YES").

Thanks, keepalive _was_ enabled, it just has a long default=20
idle time (120 minutes) before it starts doing anything. I=20
guess they didn't have firewalls with dynamic rules in those
days :-)

Rich.


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