netdev - Re: Is keepalive behaving as expected in 3.7.0+/net-next?

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Date:	Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:50:09 -0400
From:	Jamie Gloudon <jamie.gloudon@...il.com>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is keepalive behaving as expected in 3.7.0+/net-next?

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:51:47PM -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> >Make a lot of sense. However, I got the impression from Rick that
> >having tcp_keepalive_intvl > tcp_keepalive_time behaved correctly in
> >older versions of the kernel.
> 
> I seek to make no assertions about the behaviour of older kernels.  I was
> just going off the ip-sysctl.txt wording I was looking to clean-up.
> 
> rick

Ok, should ip-sysctl.txt documentation be updated to warn not to set tcp_keepalive_intvl > tcp_keepalive_time?

Regards,
Jamie Gloudon
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