1) Set the persist timer to help time-out connections in the CLOSING state.
2) Honor the keep-alive timer in the CLOSING state.
This fixes problems with connections getting "stuck" due to incompletion
of the final connection shutdown which can be a BIG problem on busy WWW
servers.
keepalive on all tcp sessions. Setsockopt(2) cannot override this setting.
Maybe another one is needed that just changes the default for SO_KEEPALIVE ?
Requested by: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
Bob Braden <braden@isi.edu>.
NB: This has not had David's TCP ACK hack re-integrated. It is not clear
what the correct solution to this problem is, if any. If a better solution
doesn't pop up in response to this message, I'll put David's code back in
(or he's welcome to do so himself).