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Date:      Sat, 05 Feb 2000 14:47:07 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Gene Kan <genehkan@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: Non-blocking sockets and network outages 
Message-ID:  <200002051447.OAA35690@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Gene Kan <genehkan@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu>  of "Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:08:12 PST." <20000205050812.24060.qmail@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> 

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> > Keepalives are by default very infrequent:
> > 
> > This means that the first keepalive won't be sent for 2 hours, at 
> > which point up to 8 will be sent with 75 seconds in between each.  If 
> > there are no responses after that, the connection is dropped.
> 
> Thanks so much!  Problem solved.
> 
> [straight6:~]sysctl -a | grep keep
> net.inet.ip.keepfaith: 0
> net.inet.tcp.keepidle: 75000
> net.inet.tcp.keepintvl: 1000
> net.inet.tcp.keepinit: 75000
> 
> Aggressive, but who puts up with lagged net, anyway?  :)  (Is there any
> way to set these intervals per-socket with setsockopt?)

I don't believe so - a bit of a shame really.  I think this sort of 
thing should be available rather than having to implement at the 
application level :-(

> Gene
> 

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