Thanks for that information Chris.

Problem is that I have the same problem with my mysql
dbi connection and I'm not sure if I can get the
socket connect handle there. I'll dig further.

--- Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 17/3/05 11:13 pm, Chris Masters
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Chris, that looks much simpler than an
> external
> > timeout mechanism.
> 
> Only if it fools your firewall ;-)
> 
> > The default timeout for SO_KEEPALIVE seems to be 2
> > hours. Any ideas how I can change this to 30 mins
> for
> > example?
> 
> This is a parameter of your machine's TCP stack. On
> darwin and FreeBSD you'd
> do 'sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.keepintvl=nnn', on Linux
> you'd 'echo nnn >
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_intvl' (2.4 and
> later kernels) and on
> Windows you'll probably have to change something
> well documented in the
> registry!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 

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