[issue28825] socket.SO_KEEPALIVE does not work on FreeBSD

[Victor Porton]

New submission from Victor Porton:

When I connect

telnet XXX 9000

to the server in attached file, the connection breaks after 5 min (and a few seconds), as if SO_KEEPALIVE were not specified.

I run my server on
FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p15 (GENERIC)

So SO_KEEPALIVE does not work in Python 2.7 and 3.5 on FreeBSD.

Specifically, I need my TCP connection not to break in extended periods of time and cannot do this with Python.

It seems that similar code does work with PHP (I am going to write a short PHP example), so it is likely a Python bug, not FreeBSD bug.

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components: FreeBSD, IO, Library (Lib)
files: bug.py
messages: 281911
nosy: koobs, porton
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: socket.SO_KEEPALIVE does not work on FreeBSD
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file45677/bug.py

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