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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.


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