At 11:24 AM -0700 6/4/99, David Greenman wrote: > someone else wrote: >> >> I still think the right thing is: >> default to keepalives. >> set the timeout to a week. > > I don't support increasing the default timeout. That would cause > problems for a lot of server systems that rely on the relatively > short two hour default. The best I think you could do would be to > increase it to something like 12-24 hours as a default, but even > that might be problematical.
This may be a stupid question, but I haven't shied away from asking stupid questions before... Do we have to consider this as an "on/off" switch? Could we have it an "on/off/extended" switch? (or is the value stored as a bit somewhere, so that it can only be on or off?). What I'm thinking is that anything that explicitly asks for "on" would get the current 2-hour timeout, but that the "extended" setting would result in a 7-day timeout. We'd then set the system default to "extended" instead of either on or off. Or would this break things in subtle ways? --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = g...@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or dro...@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
