Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: TCP keepalive timer problem | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:35:22 +0200 |
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Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> writes: > > Now, 7200 seconds might be inappropriate for special needs, and considering > there is no way to change tcp_retries2 for a given socket (only choice being the global > tcp_retries2 setting), I would vote for a change in our stack, to *relax* RFC, > and get smaller keepalive timers if possible.
I think the better fix would be to just to only do that when tcp_retries2 > keep alive time. So keep the existing behaviour with default keep alive, but switch when the user defined a very short keep alive.
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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