Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 14:01:08 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.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: <19990602140108.A47013@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <37559B01.23719902@pipeline.ch>; from Andre Oppermann on Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 10:58:41PM %2B0200 References: <19990601134232.A22685@wopr.caltech.edu> <000001beac71$af125a10$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> <19990601140146.A23081@wopr.caltech.edu> <37559B01.23719902@pipeline.ch>
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On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 10:58:41PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Matthew Hunt wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:59:48PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > > > > 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?) > > > > No, I frequently keep telnet/ssh connections idle for long periods, > > and have no particular desire for them to close on me. > > They don't close on you because keepalive would succeed. It would > only drop your connection after the keepalive times out when you become > unreachable by IP. That's how keepalives work. My understanding is that David Schwartz's comment referred to application idle timeouts, not keepalives. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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