Under what circumstances is it appropriate to change the default 75 second value of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_intvl? Regards, Michael Martinez ISTM/CSREES United States Department of Agriculture --- -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/