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From: jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton [ext 237])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: AIX/RT network socket SO_KEEPALIVE setting
Message-ID: <1036@applix.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 90 23:39:42 GMT
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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The original release of TCP/IP for AIX/RT 2.2.1 had the socket
option SO_KEEPALIVE set so that connections that don't have any
activity for ~2 minutes or so get dropped. Trying to develop a
DOS client using the Sun PC-NFS DOS socket library is impossible
because their code does not support the keepalive socket option.
I have used other DOS TCP/IP vendors' code like Excelan and
FTP who implement SO_KEEPALIVE and it works fine...

Does anyone know if:

	1) There is a way to disable keepalive in the kernel
	   driver or some sort of ifconfig(1m) type command?

	2) IBM issued any PTF's for this issue? I looked thru
	   the latest APAR listing that was posted here but
	   didn't see anything... 

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Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA
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