Long keepidle time

[Mike Silbersack]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Simon Walton wrote:

>  Thanks. I did not go with ipfw2 partly because of concerns about
> whether it was stable enough (this is on 4.10) and also because
> it requires rebuilding part of userland. Perhaps this would
> be the way to go after all.

The only way you'll know is to try it. :)

>  Note that the probes are retransmitted a few times (I think eight times)
> before the connection is considered dead, so it would take longer
> than two minutes.
>
> Simon Walton

True, I had forgotten about that fact.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack