using a mac with linux and filepro

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:59:52AM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> Thats why I like the approach in SCO's stock telnet better than either 
> facetwin (no keepalives anywhere) or putty/openssh (simple 
> keepalives/heartbeat from server or client or both)
> 
> The stock sco telnet does no keepalives at all for 2 hours.
> Then sends a telnet "are you there" query which doesn't affect the data in 
> the tty session but is traffic on that tcp session. This query
> It sends thos pings every 75 seconds once it starts, and only closes the 
> connection if it fails to get an ack after sending 8 pings.
> All 3 of those values are configurable.
> 
> That means that you could set the initial ping and the subsequent time 
> between pings to however short you need so that your particular tcp session 
> idleout nazis don't decide it's idle.
> Yet, you can set the number of allowed failures to high enough to allow the 
> session to survive and resume after as much transient-broken-network time as 
> you want, instead of the first failed ping closing the connection.
> And since this is all done by the server, the client can beconfigured not to 
> generate it's own keepalives, so the client would remain ignorant of a 
> transient breakage and so, survive it.
> And yet, if the connection really does break, or the client really does 
> close ungracefully, the server daemon will eventually know it and clean up 
> shop.

I'm going to toss that at Simon, and see if it sticks.

Cheers,
-- jra
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