From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 1 14: 0: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29677150AD for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:59:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:59:48 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Matthew Hunt" , "Julian Elischer" Cc: "Poul-Henning Kamp" , , "Nate Williams" , Subject: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:59:48 -0700 Message-ID: <000001beac71$af125a10$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <19990601134232.A22685@wopr.caltech.edu> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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?) DS > 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 * Inertia is a property > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * of matter. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message