[Qt-interest] QTcpServer timeout ?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday 21. July 2010 13.56.43 André Fillipe wrote:
> On 21 July 2010 11:39, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> > I don't think it is the proper tool for the job.
> > 
> > TCP Keep-Alive has a timeout of several hours. It's way more than the
> > usual inactivity timer in NAT firewalls.
> 
> I thought one could change these settings on a per-socket basis with
> setsockopt, no?

No, those are Linux extensions. So it's not available everywhere.

And like Stephen said, TCP keep-alive is to detect a remote that has rebooted 
or is unavailable.

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