Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 17:43:23 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <19990605174323.10313@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199906052344.TAA19843@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 07:44:40PM -0400 References: <199906051833.LAA15517@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906051608000.50279-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <199906052344.TAA19843@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman scribbled this message on Jun 5: > <<On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 16:09:00 -0400 (EDT), Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> said: > > > FWIW, I think only a fool would want a computer to NOT drop dead connections. > > Any "connection" that doesn't respond after 8 $^&! tries spaced FAR apart does > > NOT deserve to stay. > > If they are spaced too far apart, it is possible for perfectly > legitimate connections to get shot down as a result of external > periodicities. (Does somebody's router reset every day at 2:45? If > so, better hope no keepalives are scheduled for then!) yes, but are routers normally down for a couple hours?? if they are, you have other problems than worring about connections... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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