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On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 Brahim Ben wrote :<BR>
>Hi Kun,<BR>
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>Some implementations of TCP implement a timer called Keepalive timer,<BR>
>once this timer goes off, one side will check even if the other side is<BR>
>still runnnig the connection, if no responding is received the<BR>
>connection is terminated.<BR>
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Ben is right.... You can refer RFC 1122 for keep alive explanation. Keep alive timers are usually congigurable and are usually pretty high . However, I'm not aware whether current TCP's implement it or not. <BR>
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Sampad Mishra,<BR>
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.<BR>
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>Best regards,<BR>
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>Ben Brahim Taha<BR>
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> >>> "Kun Huang" <kunhuang@uga.edu> 02/28/06 12:27 AM >>><BR>
>Hi,<BR>
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>I recently got a TCP connection timeout error.<BR>
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>If both side don't send packets for a long time while connection is<BR>
>open, is<BR>
>there a default time out to abort the connection?<BR>
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>Thanks a lot!<BR>
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>- Kun<BR>
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