Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:08:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Kevin J. Rowett" <krowett@rowett.org> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <199906042008.NAA09127@apollo.backplane.com> References: <9906041725.aa11603@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <4.2.0.56.19990604111235.00ae3ac0@rowett.org>
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:had not been done, then the Internet would not have grown as it did today.
:
:The central issue of keepalives is that, for one machine, they don't create
:a significant load. Multiplied by the number of machines on the Internet,
:it can become a problem.
As I said. People are arguing about keepalives without knowing how they
work.
NO! I will repeat that: NO. There is NO significant bandwidth. Every
single machine on the entire internet could turn on keepalives and you
would not notice the difference.
Someone give me a sledgehammer! No, make that two!
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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