Re: TCP/IP keepalive packets ?!

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From:         Andi Kleen <http://www.muc.de/~ak>
 > Date:         1998/02/28
 > 
 > Ronald Cole <http://www.yakisoba.forte-intl.com/~ronald> writes:
 > 
 > > "Jack Niesen" <http://www.xs4all.nl/~janie> writes:
 > > > Can anybody help me with this problem? Please respond to my email address.
 > >
 > > Yes, I'm using 2.0.33 on my firewall and I'm quite annoyed that the
 > > connection stays up when my ISP drops idle connections after 10
 > > minutes.  I like to schedule large downloads in my absence and I have
 > > been expecting my ISP to drop the connection during the idle period
 > > following the download.  This works as expected when Win95 is driving
 > > the modem.  Unfortunately, however, Lninux is somehow keeping the
 > > connection alive all night and I get nasty-grams in the morning from
 > > my ISP.  I'm running Slackware-3.4 and using dip-3.3.7o to start pppd.
 > 
 > If the idle timeout is 10mins it is unlikely that TCP keepalives cause this -
 > the default TCP keepalive time is about 2 hours.
 > 
 > -A.

Hi.  Do you know if there's a way to change this, short of recompiling the
whole kernel?  I tried to look for some sort of interface to change the
time-out for keepalive packets, but couldn't find any for the user level.

Thanks for any help.