From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Jones Subject: Re: Is keepalive behaving as expected in 3.7.0+/net-next? Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:13:39 -0800 Message-ID: <50E5E673.4070202@hp.com> References: <50D4DD28.30903@hp.com> <1356645265.30414.1542.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <50df48f4.0e5b650a.36fa.1452@mx.google.com> <50E0A963.6080900@hp.com> <50e0ef55.11f2640a.4ef8.ffffd018@mx.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Eric Dumazet , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jamie Gloudon Return-path: Received: from g1t0029.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.36]:15115 "EHLO g1t0029.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753430Ab3ACUNk (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:13:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <50e0ef55.11f2640a.4ef8.ffffd018@mx.google.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/30/2012 05:50 PM, Jamie Gloudon wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:51:47PM -0800, Rick Jones wrote: >>> Make a lot of sense. However, I got the impression from Rick that >>> having tcp_keepalive_intvl > tcp_keepalive_time behaved correctly in >>> older versions of the kernel. >> >> I seek to make no assertions about the behaviour of older kernels. I was >> just going off the ip-sysctl.txt wording I was looking to clean-up. >> >> rick > > Ok, should ip-sysctl.txt documentation be updated to warn not to set tcp_keepalive_intvl > tcp_keepalive_time? Well, that or explain how it will not always be the time interval at which the probes are sent. rick