"Louis A. Mamakos" wrote: > > Before documenting it, how about we fix it's name to be more accurate > to newcomers: net.inet.tcp.always_makedead, etc. There's no part of > this (in many cases misguided) mechanism that keeps anything "alive."
I disagree. I use keepalive exactly to keep my connections (mostly ssh sessions) alive. The sysadmin of our corporate LAN made our router drop all connections idle for 15 minutes or so. As I understand, the router send fake RST packets. The sysadmin believe that it increase security. I tried to convince him to not do it, I tried to kill him, but didn't succeed. So, now I set net.inet.tcp.keepidle to a really low value, and it keeps my connections alive! Dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
