On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 16:09:00 -0400 (EDT), Brian Feldman <[email protected]> > 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!)
But remember that the idea is the keepalive would keep trying for a certain amount of time, and this would be finely configureable. > > -GAWollman > > -- > Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the > same > [email protected] | 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 > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ [email protected] _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
