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From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
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Subject: RE: TCP keepalive seems to send to only one port
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:19:31 -0800
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> This means that keepalive is useless for keeping alive more than
> one connection
> to a given host.

	Actually, keepalive is useless for keeping connections alive anyway. It's
very badly named. It's purpose is to detect dead peers, not keep peers
alive.

	DS

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