Why not just fix the application programs that really want timeouts but don't implement them?
DS > Mind you, this is only a problem because FreeBSD is to bloddy > stable: I logged into a customers server a few days a go, it had > been up for over a year, and had accumulated tons of ftpds from > WIN* machines which had gotten a vulcan nerve pinch or a different > IP#. (I'm sure windows NT servers doesn't have this problem at > all) > > It doesn't have to be 2h timeout. I would be happy with a default > of 24h, even one week would be OK with me. > > But infinity is too long for my taste. > > Can people live with a one week TCP keepalive as default ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message