: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>


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