:At 01:08 PM 6/4/99 , Matthew Dillon wrote: :>: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. : :That's an excellent point! People with less correct implementations of TCP :keepalives will use freeBSD's justification as their justification for :turning on TCP keepalives by default.
Umm... that is about as twisted a reasoning as I could imagine. I don't consider it a useful argument. The sky might be falling too, better not go outside! -Matt Matthew Dillon <dil...@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message