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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 10:08:00 -0500
From: jc@irbs.com (John Capo)
To: deichert@wrench.com (Diana Eichert)
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Subject: Re: telnet KEEPALIVE
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Quoting Diana Eichert (deichert@wrench.com):
> I have a problem with telnet sessions lingering after loss of connection 
> by a dialup user.  I have looked in the archives and I know that telnet 
> is setup to verify connections.  Somewhere in the archives it mentioned 
> that the default keepalive was 2 hours, I've looked everywhere and 
> haven't been able to find where you alter the keepalive value.
> 

irbs 49% sysctl net.inet.tcp.keepidle 
net.inet.tcp.keepidle = 14400

The value is in PR_SLOWHZ which is twice a second.  14400 is 2
hours.

John Capo