On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Tolas Anon wrote:

> I'd have seen no options for tcp keep-alive on that thing, i seriously doubt
> it can do it at all.

TCP keep-alive is done on the TCP layer, which is setup/negotiated by your
client code.

> My localhost is win7, and as far as i know it doesn't get involved in the
> NATing.

... but it can enable and use TCP keep-alive.

> Plus: i wanna use these import routines from continent to continent one day,
> there might be more equipment on the internets that has this problem..

Exactly. Which is why you might consider enabling TCP keep-alive.

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