On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:42:47PM -0500, Philip Mak wrote: > > SO_KEEPALIVE is a boolean option that determines whether or not > keepalives are sent. > > But I'm looking for an integer option that determines how often > keepalives are sent... > I don't think you can do this on a per-connection basis. If it is a custom application protocol, you can of-course add your own keepalive messages. I was dealing with the same issue a couple of years ago, and ended-up doing exactly this. /npat -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html