Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:59:48 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Matthew Hunt" <mph@astro.caltech.edu>, "Julian Elischer" <julian@whistle.com> Cc: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, <kip@lyris.com>, "Nate Williams" <nate@mt.sri.com>, <current@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <000001beac71$af125a10$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <19990601134232.A22685@wopr.caltech.edu>
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I think he was suggesting that the apps close the connection if they receive no data from some amount of time. (Isn't this common sense?) DS > On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:30:31PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > maybe we should fix our SERVER apps.. > > e.g. telnetd, sshd, etc. to have 1 week timeouts > > IIRC, it is not possible to specify how long the keepalive interval > should be, using the socket interface. Do you suggest we add a new > interface not present in other Unix implementations, or that we make > SO_KEEPALIVE always have a one-week timeout, surprising the other > applications that expect it to be faster? > > Both of these seem remarkably unappealing to me. > > Matt > > -- > Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Inertia is a property > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * of matter. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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