On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:34:58 EST erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > > Is this how 9p currently behaves or is there some settings somewhere > > that will help prevent it? Is there a thread that have already > > discussed > > it's actually tcp that's timing out, not 9p. > > this is how almost all connection-based protocols behave. > typically there are keep-alive packets set every so often. > and if the last time a packet was received from the other > side was too long ago, the connection is declared defunct > and closed. > > there may be some controls determining how soon to turn > off the wifi that may be of some help.
You don't need to mess with the wifi. Just do $ sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive=0 This will prevent the stack from sending any keepalive packets on its own. But this will *not* help if the higher level protocol generates such packets.
