On Wed, 4 May 2005, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On Mon, 2 May 2005, Mogens Valentin wrote: > > > I fail to understand why TCP_CONNTRACK_ESTABLISHED has to be 5 days. > > The likelyhood for valid TCP connections without a single packet for some > days is relatively high. Consider for example a SSH or telnet session left > open over the weekend (without TCP keepalives enabled). This is exactly the reason why it was set so high in the first place, to be able to be away from your workstation over a long weekend and still be able to use the telnet session when you come back. I do this all the time :) /Martin - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
