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  • 1.  Uniface 8: Network impact of TCP-option keep alive

    ROCKETEER
    Posted 11-19-2018 11:47
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    Network impact of TCP-option keep alive

    Author: thomas.hucke@spb.de (Marvel)

    Hi all,

    does anyone know or has an assumption about the additional network traffic generated by the "keep alive" (USYS$TCP_PARAMS ka) option?

    • WAN connections from sites having 256 kBit/s to 12 MBit/s and 10-200 clients
    • around 1000 clients are connected to the central site

    Is there a possibility to adjust the interval of the keep alive checks?

     

    Thank you

    Thomas

     



  • 2.  RE: Uniface 8: Network impact of TCP-option keep alive

    ROCKETEER
    Posted 11-19-2018 11:47
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    Hello Thomas,

    Possibly the article in

    http://frontline.compuware.com/products/uf/tech/16005.aspx

    can answer some of your questions. Even if this article refers to Version 7, it could possibly also be valid for newer versions.

    Greetings

    Wolfgang

     


    Author: gypsilon (wva@gypsilon.de)


  • 3.  RE: Uniface 8: Network impact of TCP-option keep alive

    ROCKETEER
    Posted 11-19-2018 11:47
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    Hi Wolgang,

    happy new year and thanks for replying!

    I already stumbled upon this article some months ago but as I understand it mainly adresses this topic related to the implementation on OS/390 - obviously it doesn´t.

    One open questions still then:

    "This interval must be configurable and must default to no less than 2 hours."
    For Uniface I only the find the option to set keep alive on or off (USYS$TCP_PARAMS ka).What is the default in UF 8.4 and is there a way to configure the probe interval on Windows?

    Other topics will be addressed by myself when doing some tests.

     

    Thank you
    Thomas


    Author: Marvel (thomas.hucke@spb.de)


  • 4.  RE: Uniface 8: Network impact of TCP-option keep alive

    ROCKETEER
    Posted 11-19-2018 11:47
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    Dear Thomas,

    The configuration of the TCP Keep-Alive Messages is done on Operating System level. In Uniface you can only configure if the TCP path should use keep-alive or not.

    The default of the Keep-Alive Timeout is usally 2 hours and the following Microsoft Knowledge Base Article describes how to tweak the different keep-alive settings (on Windows):

    And here are some additional information regarding the TCP Keep-Alive Messagesfrom the MSDN Library:

    For other Operating Systems (like for example UNIX/Linux) please check the corresponding topic in the OS documentation - or "simply" search on the WWW "library".

    Hope this helps.

    With kind regards,
    Daniel

    *** Usual disclaimer ***

     


    Author: diseli (daniel.iseli@uniface.com)