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From: ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: KeepAlive
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Date: 28 May 89 20:46:15 GMT
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> If I have a telnet connection to a host, and then the network fails,
> I would appreciate it if the remote host knew this and could
> undertake appropriate cleanup activities.

Personally as a user, I would >not< appreciate it!
I've lost work because of this, however the situation probably
deserves explaining:  I was using a CISCO terminal server,
which routed packets through two other CISCO gw machines to the
destination host and back.  Because of a fault in the routings,
the network disappeared for about 10 minutes.  I certainly lost
a lot more than I appreciated, and walked off mumbling things about
how CISCO really OUGHT to have implemented user-settable preferences
for this type of thing.

(An interesting side note:  the only successful routing I found
to the host was manually:  I telned'd to the first gw machine,
then to the second, then to the destination host -- this was the
only configuration which I could get to work, but it did!
This thank god has since been fixed.)