[freetds] [PATCH] Configurable TCP KeepAlives
Jackson, Craig (Gale)
Craig.Jackson at cengage.com
Mon Aug 11 12:14:13 EDT 2008
I actually would prefer to see these options be available.
Due to the increasing use of things like firewalls, we're finding many
situations where the traditional 2-hour keepalive for TCP is useless.
(Our firewalls have a 60-minute idle timeout that is not easily
configurable.)
So we end up additional blather at the application level just to
keep things alive.
Craig
-----Original Message-----
From: freetds-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:freetds-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of James K. Lowden
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 10:07 AM
To: FreeTDS Development Group
Subject: Re: [freetds] [PATCH] Configurable TCP KeepAlives
Andrew Victor wrote:
> The attached patch allows the TCP KeepAlive settings to be
> configurable via the freetds.conf file.
> The new settings are:
> keepalive idle (seconds)
> keepalive interval (seconds)
> keepalive count (counter)
I don't intend to apply this patch to the distributed code. AFAIK Sybase
provides no such control over low-level TCP/IP details. For most people
they're a source of confusion and potential error.
I haven't been able to look into it carefully, but it wouldn't be
difficult to expose the socket descriptor for a connection, if it's not
already possible. The application could then call ioctl(2) itself.
--jkl
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