On 19 July 2011 21:42, Glenn Maynard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Matthew A. Miller > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sending at that rate will result in a disconnected socket for most of the >> networks I've seen. There are still an exorbitant number of routers, >> proxies, firewalls, and load balancers deployed and configured such that >> they will (silently!) drop a connection if there is no traffic for 5-10 >> minutes. > > I've never encountered a network that'll disconnect with 10-15-minute > keepalives; there may be some, but I doubt "most". >
A few weeks ago I was completely with you. But I just moved into an office where idle connections randomly die - I now have 15 *second* ping-pongs on SSH connections just to make sure they stay open. It's looking like I'm going to have to do the same for XMPP too. I'm sharing the office with a fairly competent technology company, the last place I would have expected such a broken network configuration - but there you have it. Some people think HTTP is the internet :) Regards, Matthew
