On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 02:19:06AM +0300, Nick Patavalis wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:58:57PM -0500, Philip Mak wrote: > > I found the option; it involves the TCP_KEEPIDLE socket option. Here > > is the full solution in case it's useful to anyone: > > Interesting. I wouldn't expect such an option to exist, since > tcp-keepalive by itself is thought to be a rather controversial > protocol "feature". Is it a linux-only thing? Solaris: A Google search for "TCP_KEEPIDLE Solaris" suggests that Solaris has it too. FreeBSD: I know FreeBSD also supports this at least in a system-wide configuration setting; I'm not sure if it can be changed on a per-connection basis. - : 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