jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Noel Chiappa) wrote on 25.09.04 in <20040925124904.B055D86AE0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > It's not at all clear to me that this was the wrong engineering choice on > their part. If they didn't GC dead connections after some sort of timeout > (and would it make any significant different whether it was 5 minutes, or 1 > hour) Oh yes, it would make a BIG difference. 5 minutes idle in a ssh session is probably more common by a factor of 100 or so than 1 hour idle. Not that killing 1 hour idle connections is all that excusable, but at least it's a *far* rarer problem. MfG Kai _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf