Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:57:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: graeme@echidna.com (Graeme Tait) Cc: jcwells@u.washington.edu (Jason C. Wells), lvagner@ibm.net (George Vagner), questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp autologout Message-ID: <199910181757.NAA13573@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <380B1E96.1B27@echidna.com> from Graeme Tait at "Oct 18, 1999 06:20:22 am"
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Graeme Tait wrote, [snip] > What appeared to be happening in my case was that client connections were failing in mid > transfer. This can apparently leave ftpd in an indefinite wait. I was advised to try the > following to clear out these connections: > > # sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive=1 > > This seems to have done the job. I believe it kills idle connections after 4 hours. Small note, there is an rc.conf switch to set this, tcp_keepalive="YES" # Kill dead TCP connections (or NO). It is set on in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. That is, it is set on by default. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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