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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun,  6 Mar 2011 23:17:16 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] drawterm dies when my mac book sleeps by 9p design?
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> This setting works for ssh, xterm etc. between *BSD/Mac and I
> think Linux (Windows forcibly terminates everything when the
> link goes down -- there may be a setting to disable keepalives
> but I try not to know more about Windows).
>
>  From RFC1122:
>
>          4.2.3.6  TCP Keep-Alives
>
>             Implementors MAY include "keep-alives" in their TCP
>             implementations, although this practice is not universally
>             accepted.  If keep-alives are included, the application MUST
>             be able to turn them on or off for each TCP connection, and
>             they MUST default to off.

read the section on timers.  if you don't do keep-alives, then
your session will timeout if there's no traffic.  keep-alives do not
affect timers.

- erik