Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:42:32 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, 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: <19990601134232.A22685@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990601132954.13159J-100000@current1.whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:30:31PM -0700 References: <000001beac6b$dc847920$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> <Pine.BSF.3.95.990601132954.13159J-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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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
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