Re: broken tcp ?

Hugues Talbot (Hugues.Talbot@dms.CSIRO.AU)
Wed, 12 Mar 1997 18:17:22 +1100


> When a TCP connection gets cut off (modem hangs up) my linux box doesnt
> detects it. First i thought that it's only the shell that doesnt detects the
> disconnection , but then i noticed 2 ftpd processes runing for a few days
> already. netstat shows that the connection is still established.

Depending on how you look at it, this may also be
a feature: if you restart your PPP session, the ftp connection
will just resume!
I do that all the time with my telnet sessions: the line
drops, I redial, and continue typing in the xterm as if nothing
had happened. I think this is quite cool.
Cheers.

___Hugues Talbot, CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences ___
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