On 2008-May-30 05:35:56 -0400, Robert Blayzor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A timeout value would be fine.
The problem is selecting a sensible timeout - 30-60s might be reasonable for a webserver that serves static content but is a bit short for a shell session... >On a side note, I could easily fix this problem by frontending the server >with a Cisco PIX or ASA. I believe they have "half closed" timers just for >this purpose... Perhaps a kernel tunable knob would be a nice >option/fix/hack also. I don't think your problem is related to half-closed connections. You would get exactly the same behaviour if the server didn't close its end of the connection. OTOH, a long-lived half-closed connection is perfectly valid - many years ago, I wrote a tool that logged data in one direction only and so closed the other direction. I agree that a kernel tunable would be nice but I'm not in a position to write a suitable patch at present. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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