From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 1 14: 6:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660F314F6C for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:06:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA23103; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:01:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:01:46 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: David Schwartz Cc: Julian Elischer , Poul-Henning Kamp , kip@lyris.com, Nate Williams , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <19990601140146.A23081@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <19990601134232.A22685@wopr.caltech.edu> <000001beac71$af125a10$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <000001beac71$af125a10$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to>; from David Schwartz on Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:59:48PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:59:48PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > 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?) No, I frequently keep telnet/ssh connections idle for long periods, and have no particular desire for them to close on me. -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message