On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 12:40:34PM -0700, k...@lyris.com wrote: > declared dead. I think it somewhat silly to say that this is consuming a > lot of bandwidth. The average mail message (4k) is 4 packets, the average
The other issue is that you don't necessarily want the TCP connection to close just because you lose connectivity for a few hours. If we send keepalives by default, might that not surprise users who don't expect it? I'm thinking of long-lived connections like telnet and ssh; if you're doing work over such a connection, it would be nice if the connection endured an outage while you're away sleeping, like it does without keepalives. -- Matthew Hunt <m...@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
