AIX/RT network socket SO_KEEPALIVE setting

[John Garnett]

In article <1036 at applix.UUCP> jim at applix.UUCP (Jim Morton [ext 237]) writes:
>The original release of TCP/IP for AIX/RT 2.2.1 had the socket
>option SO_KEEPALIVE set so that connections that don't have any
>activity for ~2 minutes or so get dropped.
>
>Does anyone know if:
>
>	2) IBM issued any PTF's for this issue? I looked thru
>	   the latest APAR listing that was posted here but
>	   didn't see anything... 
>


The later versions of AIX TCP/IP allows one to specify a flag to
the telnetd daemon in /etc/inetd.conf that will disable the
keepalive behavior.  I'm not sure what PTF introduced this fix.
I realize that this doesn't help if you aren't using telnet,
but it might give you a lead to another solution.


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John Garnett                           Computing and Information Sciences
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