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Message-Id: <E1Hg3Xa-0003gF-Vk@highlab.com> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:45:34 -0600 From: Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@...hlab.com> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: bug in my understanding (was Re: bug in tcp?) Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@...hlab.com> wrote: > Philip Craig <philipc@...pgear.com> wrote: > > Change the timeout or use keepalives. I can't think of any other way. > > The 5 days is a compromise between keeping valid connections and > > timing out dead connections. There will always be connections for > > which it times out too fast or too slow. I don't think there are > > any drawbacks to increasing the timeout if you aren't a router, > > but as long as there is a timeout, you need keepalives to be sure. > > Thanks! I'll add keepalives and rerun the tests, and I expect the > problem to go away. I reran the tests with keepalive enabled and it worked just fine. Thanks for all your help, and sorry for the false alarm! -- Sebastian Kuzminsky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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