[Swan] Proposal to remove force_keepalive= global option

Tuomo Soini tis at foobar.fi
Thu Apr 4 20:10:30 EEST 2013


On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 12:03:07 -0400 (EDT)
Paul Wouters <pwouters at redhat.com> wrote:

> Therefor, I suggest we remove the entore global force_keepalive=
> option. This will leave us with a per-connection nat_keepalive=yes|no
> option, which defaults to "yes" and works as per RFC 3947/3948.
> 
> The alternative could be to change the per-conn option to emulate the
> behaviour of force_keepalive by allowing nat_keepalive=yes|no|force,
> but I would rather avoid that if we have no use-case for it.

I'll second this - this is best solution - I don't understand any need
for global variables for stuff which should be per connection anyway.

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