RE: TCP keepalive seems to send to only one port

From: David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com)
Date: Sat Dec 23 2000 - 19:19:31 EST


> This means that keepalive is useless for keeping alive more than
> one connection
> to a given host.

        Actually, keepalive is useless for keeping connections alive anyway. It's
very badly named. It's purpose is to detect dead peers, not keep peers
alive.

        DS

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