Does anyone have a short good definition of what a keepalive is
Brian
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The easiest definition of keepalive is somewhat like the dial tone
for the phone line. It means the "line" is physically(or layer 2) OK
to pass your message.
Jim Xie
At 07:43 PM 06/12/2000 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Does anyone have a short good definition of what a keepalive is
The keepalive interval is the frequency at which the Cisco IOS software sends
messages to itself (Ethernet and Token Ring)or to the other end (serial), to
ensure a network interface is alive.
The interval in previous software versions was 10 seconds. An interface is
declared down after three up
keep typing something or
the connection would hang-up...
regards
steve
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Brian,
I Hope that this is not a longer answer than you wanted, but here it goes:
>From a generic sense, keepalive usually refers to a mechanism that ensures that an
>established "connection" or "session" is still alive. It is used at different levels
>in the OSI stack.
Here are some example
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