Joe Touch wrote this message on Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 23:51 -0700:
> Keepalives are already part of TCP. The complexity of adding a timer to
> deal with idle connections is very small - one line of code for every
> incoming segment that's probably already there to keep track of other
> timeouts anyway, and one line to check that timer when the RST arrives.
If it truely is that simple (3 lines of code), then I'm fine w/ it, but
having delt w/ timer code and timeout code in the past, nothing is that
simple, especially w/ normal code bases where you have to add that
one lines of code to 10 different places... :(
> On 7/29/2014 11:31 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >How many connections (percetage) would be protected by adding this vs.
> >the complexity to the protocol?
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