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RE: Heartbeats draft available

To: "'Michael Richardson'" <mcr@solidum.com>, <ipsec@lists.tislabs.com>
Subject: RE: Heartbeats draft available
From: "Andrew Krywaniuk" <akrywani@newbridge.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 05:47:12 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <200003281322.IAA13351@solidum.com>
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>    - what's the use of heartbeats on a link that you don't
> want to keep alive

There's a reason why we call them heartbeats instead of keep-alives. A
keep-alive forces the peer to keep the link alive. A heartbeat merely allows
the peer to detect if it goes down.

Andrew
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Re: Heartbeats draft available

From: Michael Richardson <mcr@solidum.com>

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