AIX/RT network socket SO_KEEPALIVE setting

[Jim Morton [ext 237]]

The original release of TCP/IP for AIX/RT 2.2.1 had the socket
option SO_KEEPALIVE set so that connections that don't have any
activity for ~2 minutes or so get dropped. Trying to develop a
DOS client using the Sun PC-NFS DOS socket library is impossible
because their code does not support the keepalive socket option.
I have used other DOS TCP/IP vendors' code like Excelan and
FTP who implement SO_KEEPALIVE and it works fine...

Does anyone know if:

	1) There is a way to disable keepalive in the kernel
	   driver or some sort of ifconfig(1m) type command?

	2) IBM issued any PTF's for this issue? I looked thru
	   the latest APAR listing that was posted here but
	   didn't see anything... 

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Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA
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