Bogdan-Andrei Iancu writes:
I was digging in Stevens, for there were no restriction for setsockopt() with SO_KEEPALIVE - do you have other info on this topic?
bogdan,
i don't remember exactly anymore, but when i was looking into this a year or so ago, i remember reading somewhere that tcp keepalive option is not an official part of tcp protocol and that it is not implemented by all OSes.
-- juha