In message <[email protected]>, David Malone writes:
>On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 02:15:05PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
>> > Can people live with a one week TCP keepalive as default ?
>>
>> Compromise. I like it. One week is certainly adequate for me. If I
>> leave a link 'active' for longer than that w/out activity, I deserve to
>> lose the link
>
>Surely that violates POLA? That upsets people who have keepalive
>turned on already and find 1 week is way too long. For instance,
>we use keepalive to get rid of stuck netscapes, and we'd probably
>run out of swap or mbufs if it went up to a week. We just managed
>by putting this in rc.local:
>
>sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive=1
My intent was an "implementation" which would set:
net.inet.tcp.keepidle: 86400
net.inet.tcp.keepintvl: 64800
net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive: 1
Leaving people to set whatever they want for a local policy.
All I'm talking about is what our default should be...
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