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Date:      Fri, 5 Sep 1997 00:11:15 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To:        Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Getting FTP to die when route disappears
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970905000851.24903S-100000@alive.znep.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709041557.LAA19312@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>

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Try setting net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive to 1 with sysctl.  If that
helps, you should either leave it that way (not a good idea, since it will
behave that way for all connections) or add a setsockopt() to your ftp
source to enable SO_KEEPALIVE. 

On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Brian McGovern wrote:

> I'm currently using several FreeBSD boxes to test file transfers to routers
> under test. The problem that I'm having is that if a call drops, and the
> route is deleted from the routing table, the FTP client just zones out, 
> waiting for the transfer to complete (I had one hang for ~ 2 days). Is
> there any way to make it so if a route drops (ie - ping
> reports "No route to host") to get FTP to realize it's route is down, and
> abort the transfer? Thanks.
> 	-Brian
> 




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