Re: Per-connection TCP_KEEPALIVE setting?

[Philip Mak (pmak@aaanime.net)]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 02:19:06AM +0300, Nick Patavalis wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:58:57PM -0500, Philip Mak wrote:
> > I found the option; it involves the TCP_KEEPIDLE socket option. Here
> > is the full solution in case it's useful to anyone:
> 
> Interesting. I wouldn't expect such an option to exist, since
> tcp-keepalive by itself is thought to be a rather controversial
> protocol "feature". Is it a linux-only thing?

Solaris: A Google search for "TCP_KEEPIDLE Solaris" suggests that
Solaris has it too.

FreeBSD: I know FreeBSD also supports this at least in a system-wide
configuration setting; I'm not sure if it can be changed on a
per-connection basis.
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