Re: Long keepidle time

2006-08-30 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Simon Walton wrote: Thanks. I did not go with ipfw2 partly because of concerns about whether it was stable enough (this is on 4.10) and also because it requires rebuilding part of userland. Perhaps this would be the way to go after all. The only way you'll know is to try

Re: Long keepidle time

2006-08-30 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Chris wrote: whats the point of keeping a connection alive (hung) to a dead network for 2 hours tho? That I dont understand either. Chris I used to wonder that myself. From the perspective of minimizing the number of open sockets, it makes sense to kill connections to

Re: Long keepidle time

2006-08-17 Thread Chris
On 12/08/06, Mike Silbersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Simon Walton wrote: > Is there any reason why the default initial timeout for keep alive > packets needs to be as long as two hours? This period causes the dynamic > rules in my firewall filter to timeout. > > Is the

Re: Long keepidle time

2006-08-14 Thread Simon Walton
Mike Silbersack wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Simon Walton wrote: Is there any reason why the default initial timeout for keep alive packets needs to be as long as two hours? This period causes the dynamic rules in my firewall filter to timeout. Is there a major objection to reducing the de

Re: Long keepidle time

2006-08-12 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Mike Silbersack wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Simon Walton wrote: Is there any reason why the default initial timeout for keep alive packets needs to be as long as two hours? This period causes the dynamic rules in my firewall filter to timeout. Is there a major object

Re: Long keepidle time

2006-08-11 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Simon Walton wrote: Is there any reason why the default initial timeout for keep alive packets needs to be as long as two hours? This period causes the dynamic rules in my firewall filter to timeout. Is there a major objection to reducing the default idle time to say 3