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From: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
Subject: Re: Bug?  TCP shutdown behaviour when deleting local IP addresses
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:37:45 +0200
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Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com> writes:

> 7) client waits for response from server, and waits forever or until
> keepalive expires

Please don't fix that. I sometimes move my laptop from one ethernet
socket to another. During the move I lose my DHCP-assigned IP address.

I do not want to lose my SSH sessions too.


/Benny