That is a much more genuine concern than bandwidth. Applications should
decide for themselves whether or not to use keepalives.
-Kip
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 12:40:34PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > declared dead. I think it somewhat silly to say that this is consuming a
> > lot of bandwidth. The average mail message (4k) is 4 packets, the average
>
> The other issue is that you don't necessarily want the TCP connection
> to close just because you lose connectivity for a few hours. If we
> send keepalives by default, might that not surprise users who don't
> expect it?
>
> I'm thinking of long-lived connections like telnet and ssh; if you're
> doing work over such a connection, it would be nice if the connection
> endured an outage while you're away sleeping, like it does without
> keepalives.
>
> --
> Matthew Hunt <[email protected]> * UNIX is a lever for the
> http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey
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