Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:51:26 +0100 From: "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk> To: <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Why not a default number of pings? Message-ID: <01dd01bf6145$e13d6c80$0e00a8c0@neland.dk>
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I've been hit by a "forgotten ping" again. I still do not see a reason for not having a default number of pings, = instead of infinite. The only reason I've seen is "It's always been so". Even if a default of 4 pings is not acceptable, because windows does it = that way, why not a large default then? If somebody _really_ want to ping forever, let them use -t0, and defend = the rest of us from our blunders of forgetting a ping, keeping the line = open infinitely. How about a MAX_PING=3D3600 in make.conf or so? I've supplied patches earlier, but they've been rejected. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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