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From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)"  <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] drawterm dies when my mac book sleeps by 9p design?
Date: Sun,  6 Mar 2011 20:49:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <baa69f354bb7f2697aa3b1708e8c6e34@gandalf.orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinA-dmsSkzzBKY7jULXyetagdmabAXfdB8nU-bB@mail.gmail.com>

> He would get pretty exercised about keep-alives. Felt that it was not
> the business of TCP to make these kinds of decisions. I can't remember
> if he actually called them an abomination, but at the same time, one
> was left with the feeling that he might have.

I'm sure he's called them worse than that over the years.  And he could
not be more right.

We have been inflicted with keepalives as a workaround to the only
worse abomination on the planet: shitty shitty shitty home NAT routers
that have a ten minute attention span.

--lyndon




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-07  4:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-07  0:35 Fernan Bolando
2011-03-07  2:34 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-07  3:31   ` Bakul Shah
2011-03-07  3:34     ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-07  4:15       ` Bakul Shah
2011-03-07  4:17         ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-07  4:25         ` ron minnich
2011-03-07  4:44           ` Bakul Shah
2011-03-07  4:51             ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-07  5:38               ` Bakul Shah
2011-03-07  4:49           ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) [this message]
2011-03-07  5:00             ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-07  8:54           ` Anthony Sorace

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