:had not been done, then the Internet would not have grown as it did today. : :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.
As I said. People are arguing about keepalives without knowing how they work. NO! I will repeat that: NO. There is NO significant bandwidth. Every single machine on the entire internet could turn on keepalives and you would not notice the difference. Someone give me a sledgehammer! No, make that two! -Matt Matthew Dillon <dil...@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message