Why not just fix the application programs that really want timeouts but
don't implement them?
DS
> Mind you, this is only a problem because FreeBSD is to bloddy
> stable: I logged into a customers server a few days a go, it had
> been up for over a year, and had accumulated tons of ftpds from
> WIN* machines which had gotten a vulcan nerve pinch or a different
> IP#. (I'm sure windows NT servers doesn't have this problem at
> all)
>
> It doesn't have to be 2h timeout. I would be happy with a default
> of 24h, even one week would be OK with me.
>
> But infinity is too long for my taste.
>
> Can people live with a one week TCP keepalive as default ?
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