Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: enabling TCP keepalives - v3

[Avi Kivity]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> You don't neccessarily always get a different IP for VPN connections,
> as administrators may well choose to give users a fixed IP for their
> VPN client. I'm not entirely against keepalives, but I thing making
> it drop the connection after a mere 60 seconds is way too quick, if this
> is enabled by default. I'd be more inclined to just have it use the
> kernel defaults for timeouts
>   

That's around two hours.

I understand the wariness when it comes to dropping connections, but vnc 
is a reconnectable protocol; it isn't like you lose any data.  If the 
connection drops for two minutes it is useless anyway.

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