Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU!MRC From: MRC@CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU (Mark Crispin) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: SO_KEEPALIVE considered harmful? Message-ID: Date: 25 May 89 20:25:39 GMT References: <20761@news.Think.COM> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 12 I like Barry Margolin's suggestion a lot. I am responsible for several servers which have autologout timers *solely* to handle the case of a client getting rebooted with no mechanism for the server to get a reset. It has been shown to be virtually impossible to pick a timer value short enough to be of use (particularly if a resource is locked up while the server lives) yet long enough to live across some of the delays and temporary outages we see on the operating network. -- Mark -- -------