Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:03:51 -0700 From: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, George Vagner <lvagner@ibm.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp autologout Message-ID: <380BD187.23C4@echidna.com> References: <199910181757.NAA13573@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Crist J. Clark wrote: > > 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. My 2.2.7S doesn't have this in rc.conf - perhaps it was added with 3.x. -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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