Am Donnerstag, 8. März 2007 16:57 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
> > > All right, maybe it wouldn't if you did it for a short time -- but then
> > > what would be the point? Surely if you want to power down the network
> > > interface and leave it that way, you must realize that you can't keep
> > > live sessions bound to the interface.
> >
> > Why? A full suspension of the system does that and we should seek
> > to be able to do the same.
>
> What happens when the opposite end of a network connection tries to send
> data to a suspended system? Yes, TCP is pretty aggressive about retries,
> but doesn't it eventually give up?
Sure, eventually. Nothing is perfect. Suspension will cost performance
and/or functionality. Is that reason not to limit that loss?
Regards
Oliver
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