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From: mo@prisma.UUCP (Mike O'Dell)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Keep alives....
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Date: 4 Jun 89 05:08:19 GMT
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Ok, so we don't do keep-alives at the TCP level.  This is the best reason
I've heard for a session protocol.