>In message <37580f03.88efb...@sitara.net>, "John R. LoVerso" writes: > >>But, consider going back to the discusssions leading up to the Host >>Requirements >>RFC (1122). The particular problem was that the original timeout value for >>keepalives was tiny (a few minutes). 1122 dictated the corrections for this. >>Here are the important points from section 4.2.3.6: > >But RFC 1122 pretty much entirely predates the "modern internet user". While >I fully supported the policy back then, I no longer do. > >I still think the right thing is: > > default to keepalives. > set the timeout to a week.
I don't support increasing the default timeout. That would cause problems for a lot of server systems that rely on the relatively short two hour default. The best I think you could do would be to increase it to something like 12-24 hours as a default, but even that might be problematical. Actually, I think we should leave it alone. I don't mind if people add an rc.conf variable, however. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
