Subject: Keep alive frames

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 11:47:09 EDT

Correction to my point about keep alive frames:
In the 6611 implementation, which is AIX-based, you need to set this
option on TCP connections just so you can get the timeout time down
to 2-4 minutes.  Without them, the TCP connection timeout notification
requires a number of hours.  The fewer circuits per TCP connection,
the more likely some TCP connections will need to send traffic of this
type to make sure the connection is still there.

Peter