Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 07:40:32 -1000 From: "Art Neilson, WH7N" <art@pilikia.hi.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive: 1 Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000318074032.00916500@pilikia.hi.net>
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I've been running 3.4-Stable for a while now and finally updated my
/etc/defaults/rc.conf from /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf. I noticed
the new sysctl toggles in the conf file, and was wondering what this one
in particular did? I thought keepalive packets were for systems connected
up to providers who whould time them out if they had no activity for x
length of time. The comment here seems to indicate it is for cleanup
of dead connections. Can someone enlighten me or point me to relevant doc?
tcp_keepalive="YES" # Kill dead TCP connections (or NO).
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Arthur W. Neilson III, WH7N
Bank of Hawaii Tech Support
art@pilikia.hi.net, aneilson@boh.com, wh7n@arrl.net
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