> He would get pretty exercised about keep-alives. Felt that it was not > the business of TCP to make these kinds of decisions. I can't remember > if he actually called them an abomination, but at the same time, one > was left with the feeling that he might have.
I'm sure he's called them worse than that over the years. And he could not be more right. We have been inflicted with keepalives as a workaround to the only worse abomination on the planet: shitty shitty shitty home NAT routers that have a ten minute attention span. --lyndon
