On Jun 5, 5:43pm, John-Mark Gurney wrote: } Subject: Re: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? } Garrett Wollman scribbled this message on Jun 5: } > <<On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 16:09:00 -0400 (EDT), Brian Feldman <gr...@unixhelp.org> said: } > } > > FWIW, I think only a fool would want a computer to NOT drop dead connections. } > > Any "connection" that doesn't respond after 8 $^&! tries spaced FAR apart does } > > NOT deserve to stay. } > } > If they are spaced too far apart, it is possible for perfectly } > legitimate connections to get shot down as a result of external } > periodicities. (Does somebody's router reset every day at 2:45? If } > so, better hope no keepalives are scheduled for then!) } } yes, but are routers normally down for a couple hours?? if they are, } you have other problems than worring about connections...
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