"Kevin J. Rowett" <krow...@rowett.org> writes: > The central issue of keepalives is that, for one machine, they don't > create a significant load. Multiplied by the number of machines on > the Internet, it can become a problem.
No offense, but that is the most ludicrous assertion I've heard since Slobodan Milosevic claimed that all those bedraggled people streaming across the Albanian border were actually actors being paid $5.50 per day by NATO. Hint: If everybody turned on TCP keepalives, what percentage of the traffic on Internet backbones do you think would be keepalive packets? Jim Shankland NLynx Systems, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
