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From: vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Detecting dead client in BSD socket
Date: 4 Mar 94 00:07:17
Organization: Vixie Enterprises
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Message-ID: <VIXIE.94Mar4000717@office.home.vix.com>
References: <1994Mar3.154852.24090@il.us.swissbank.com>
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In-reply-to: leed@il.us.swissbank.com's message of Thu, 3 Mar 1994 15:48:52 GMT
to get your kernel to find out whether the connection is alive when idle:
{ int on = 1; setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_TCP, SO_KEEPALIVE, &on, sizeof(int)); }
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Paul Vixie
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