[squid-users] Setting SO_KEEPALIVE on outbound connections

Hi all,

I have a squid cache behind a stateful network device which drops idle TCP
connections after 300 seconds. I need to ensure TCP level keepalives are
set both for traffic to squid (accept) as well as traffic from squid
(connect) in order to support long-lived connections with idle periods.

I've found the "http_port keepalive" option, which does set SO_KEEPALIVE
on the accept end of squid. But this directive doesn't set keepalives for
outbound traffic, which I need as well.

Would squid folks be receptive to a patch that adds a toplevel config
directive to set SO_KEEPALIVE on all connections, both inbound and
outbound? Or have I overlooked something and is this possible today? I'm
relatively unfamiliar with Squid and am just starting to paw through the
source to see what achieving this would take.

Thanks!
Received on Mon Jan 27 2014 - 19:33:02 MST