On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 10:58:41PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Matthew Hunt wrote: > > 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. > > They don't close on you because keepalive would succeed. It would > only drop your connection after the keepalive times out when you become > unreachable by IP.
That's how keepalives work. My understanding is that David Schwartz's comment referred to application idle timeouts, not keepalives. -- Matthew Hunt <m...@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
