I know that NetOS 7 defaults to having the Keep-Alives OFF, does anyone know what the default for NetOS 6 is? I have been monitoring a NetOS6 device and a NetOS7 device to determine this, but there is so much data that I am overwhelmed.
Thanks,
-Erik
According to the latest 7.5 docs (and 7.4), keepalive defaults to ‘on’, with an interval of 7200 seconds (2 hours)
Keep Alives in 7.4 (I don’t know about 7.5) are off unless SO_KEEPALIVE is called to turn them on. I am reading this from the documention myself. 6.x doesn’t say.
Did anyone saw any TCP Keep Alive packets under wireshark?
I suspect that this functionality doesn’t work at all (7.4):
int optval = 1;
setsockopt(listen_socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, (char*)&optval, sizeof(optval)) ;
NAIpSetKaInterval(5);
I am doing heavy testing on that today, so I will post something this afternoon.
TCP Keep Alive works, but you have to call NAIpSetKaInterval before creating a socket and set SO_KEEPALIVE option after creating it. This information should be in the manual.
The docs (the CHM) don’t appear to mention the need to set SO_KEEPALIVE - just says “Overrides the default value for the TCP keepalive interval, which by default is 2 hours (7200 seconds). If ka_interval == 0, keepalive is turned off.” for NAIpSetKaInterval()
I have just spent 24 hours testing with Wireshark. Mabro is correct. Set the time with NAIpSetKaInterval(), then after connecting on the socket, use SO_KEEPALIVE to activate the Keep-Alive.
-Erik