<<On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 16:09:00 -0400 (EDT), Brian Feldman <gr...@unixhelp.org> said:
> FWIW, I think only a fool would want a computer to NOT drop dead connections. > Any "connection" that doesn't respond after 8 $^&! tries spaced FAR apart does > NOT deserve to stay. If they are spaced too far apart, it is possible for perfectly legitimate connections to get shot down as a result of external periodicities. (Does somebody's router reset every day at 2:45? If so, better hope no keepalives are scheduled for then!) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same woll...@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
