Subject: Re: [tcpm] Restarting Keepalive timer

From: Fernando Gont <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:01:58 -0300

At 08:33 a.m. 24/03/2007, Vishal Study wrote:

>Consider a one-way traffic scenario between host A and B (data traffic
>from A to B).
>
>Should host-A restart its Keepalive timer if it gets an ACK for its
>data from host-B?

Yes.

>Or Keepalive timer can only be reset if host-A gets some data from host-B?

No. if that were the case, in scenarios of one-way long data 
transfers the TCP receiver would end up closing the connection unnecessarily.

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