Subject: Re: BSD 4.2 style TCP keepalives

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:21:49 -0800

David Miller wrote:
> From: Neil Horman <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:07:56 -0500
> 
> 
>>Dave, If that patch fixes the problem (waiting on test results now,
>>but I figure it will), what if we add a parameter to tcp_sequence
>>(and tcp_validate_incomming), that represents an offset to trim from
>>end_seq (so that we can effectively ignore the garbage byte)?
> 
> 
> Sure, we could do that too, and it would be an improvement.
> 
> Let's first wait for test results and also give a bit for
> others to potentially come up with implementation ideas.

Might it suffice to simply enable TCP keepalives on the Linux end?  Or is that 
too big a kludge?

rick jones