From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 6 22:41:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E17514F94 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 22:41:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40335>; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:25:05 +1000 Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:41:09 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <99Jun7.152505est.40335@border.alcanet.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joel Ray Holveck wrote: >I don't see why this is a point of discussion. The keepalive timers >are all configurable via sysctl. Not quite all. The variables tcp_keepcnt and tcp_maxpersistidle are not accessible via sysctl (the latter is not directly related to the current keepalives issue, but it shares the same default value - TCPTV_KEEP_IDLE - as tcp_keepidle). There's also the the minor nit that there's no documentation. RTSL may be OK for developers, but it's not really appropriate for end users. This is aggravated by the timers being in 500ms units - phk tripped over this recently. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message