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Re: statement regarding keepalives

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Thu, 16 August 2018 15:02 UTC

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:01:58 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
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Subject: Re: statement regarding keepalives
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2018, Tom Herbert wrote:

> They are already on, TCP has a default keepalive for 2 hrs. The issue

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TCP-Keepalive-HOWTO/usingkeepalive.html says:

"Remember that keepalive support, even if configured in the kernel, is not 
the default behavior in Linux."

Which OSes default to this on?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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