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To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: SO_KEEPALIVE 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Apr 1996 12:38:39 CST."
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Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 06:34:14 +0000
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> Question, stupid, nonetheless a question:
> 
> Does anybody see any advantage to allowing for a way to set a systemwide
> SO_KEEPALIVE default of ON?

make a sysctl variable for this.  It's really easy.

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