Re: Dropped connections and child processes

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker@dodgy.net.au)
Date: 02/20/03


From: dtucker@dodgy.net.au (Darren Tucker)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:22:36 GMT

In article <q0S4a.2121$rI4.173060302@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>,
Ross MacKinnon <mackinra@pacbell.net> wrote:
>By the way, the man page was not very specific as to whether
>the ClientAliveCountMax count is reset any time a
>ClientAlive message is responded to. In other words, will
>the client session be terminated only when 'x' consecutive
>ClientAlive messages are not responded to? Or do they not
>need to be consecutive? Would you happen to know the
>answers to this?

Please trim quotes and don't top-post.

I just checked and it resets the counter on receipt of a keep-alive
response, so it's X consecutive failures. A good response will restart
the count.

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