Francois Piette wrote: >>>> Is there a way at the O/S level (unix-linux and windows) to set the >>>> keepalive for the O/S. Can you do it by port ? >>> >>> Yes, the last ICS V5 BETA contains code for setting the keepalive. >>> Experience show that it doesn't work on all the OS version. Search in >>> messages posted in the list since last few month, we talked about this >>> issue. >> >> Francois, >> >> I'm going to believe that something must be strange with your TCP >> settings, because I can control the keep-alive stuff on W2K as well as >> XP Sp2 just fine. >> >> To enable keep-alive packets an application has to call setsockopt(). >> If the application does not explizitly set KeepAliveTime and >> KeepAliveInterval system settings apply. Either the defaults or the >> values set in registry. But if the application sets KeepAliveTime and >> KeepAliveInterval by a call to WSAIoctl() those custom values apply. So >> current changes to the keep-alive stuff breaks backward compatibility >> due to the hardcoded values (Angus already reported such a case with a >> buggy router). > > I will remove this code in the next ICS beta upload.
But why? It works great here, please have a look at my changes. http://www.duodata.de/misc/Wsocket.zip By default it behaves exactly the same as in previous versions, but optionally you can disable it as well as set custom keep-alive values. Arno > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
