Re: TCP alwayskeepalive option.

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 03:08:38 -0800


Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 02:55:51 -0800 (PST)
From: jg@pa.dec.com (Jim Gettys)

Fix netscape:

The vast majority of us are going to violently agree with
you on this one.

However netscape is a black box, a binary from a vendor, and
in fact getting Netscape to produce even a binary that supports
a non-x86 Linux system is a pain let alone fix bugs like that
which is under question here.

That said, I still think there is no reason to turn keepalive on all
the time. Even with buggy applications which you can't get the
vendor to fix.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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