jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton [ext 237]) (03/13/90)
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. Trying to develop a DOS client using the Sun PC-NFS DOS socket library is impossible because their code does not support the keepalive socket option. I have used other DOS TCP/IP vendors' code like Excelan and FTP who implement SO_KEEPALIVE and it works fine... Does anyone know if: 1) There is a way to disable keepalive in the kernel driver or some sort of ifconfig(1m) type command? 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... -- Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA ...uunet!applix!jim jim@applix.com
garnett@a.cs.okstate.edu (John Garnett) (03/15/90)
In article <1036@applix.UUCP> jim@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. -- -- John Garnett Computing and Information Sciences Oklahoma State University Email: garnett@a.cs.okstate.edu Stillwater, Oklahoma