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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: enabling TCP keepalives - v3
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 18:52:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49FB1AC3.2040804@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090501152312.GH13308@redhat.com>

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> You don't neccessarily always get a different IP for VPN connections,
> as administrators may well choose to give users a fixed IP for their
> VPN client. I'm not entirely against keepalives, but I thing making
> it drop the connection after a mere 60 seconds is way too quick, if this
> is enabled by default. I'd be more inclined to just have it use the
> kernel defaults for timeouts
>   

That's around two hours.

I understand the wariness when it comes to dropping connections, but vnc 
is a reconnectable protocol; it isn't like you lose any data.  If the 
connection drops for two minutes it is useless anyway.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-01 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-30 19:40 [Qemu-devel] PATCH: enabling TCP keepalives - v3 David Ahern
2009-05-01 11:32 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2009-05-01 12:23   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-01 12:49   ` David Ahern
2009-05-01 15:23     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-05-01 15:47       ` David Ahern
2009-05-01 17:21         ` Richard W.M. Jones
2009-05-05  1:31         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-05  2:59           ` David Ahern
2009-05-01 15:52       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-05-01 16:11         ` John Haxby
2009-05-05  1:35           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-01 14:43 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-01 14:47   ` David Ahern
2009-05-01 14:51     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-01 15:16       ` Paul Brook
2009-05-01 15:57         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-01 16:04           ` Paul Brook
2009-05-01 16:11             ` David Ahern

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