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Date:      Tue, 1 Jun 1999 21:20:45 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>, kip@lyris.com, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?
Message-ID:  <19990601212045.A13137@bell.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <199906012015.OAA15519@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 02:15:05PM -0600
References:  <19990601130331.A21176@wopr.caltech.edu> <22394.928267922@critter.freebsd.dk> <199906012015.OAA15519@mt.sri.com>

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On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 02:15:05PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
> > Can people live with a one week TCP keepalive as default ?
> 
> Compromise.  I like it.  One week is certainly adequate for me.  If I
> leave a link 'active' for longer than that w/out activity, I deserve to
> lose the link

Surely that violates POLA? That upsets people who have keepalive
turned on already and find 1 week is way too long. For instance,
we use keepalive to get rid of stuck netscapes, and we'd probably
run out of swap or mbufs if it went up to a week. We just managed
by putting this in rc.local:

sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive=1

Make it a rc.conf knob if anything.

	David.


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