NetBIOS keepalive causing Windows to reset connection on NetBIOS connection on port 139

Derrell Lipman derrell.lipman at unwireduniverse.com
Sat Sep 1 17:36:38 GMT 2007


On 9/1/07, Christopher R. Hertel <crh at ubiqx.mn.org> wrote:
> I went back to my book to see what I'd written about this.
>
>   RFC 1001 makes it clear that sending the NBT Session Service Keepalive
>   message is optional. TCP itself also has a keepalive mechanism, which
>   should be used instead, if possible."
>
> So I think the getpeername(3p) approach makes a lot of sense.

Fabulous!  Thanks!

Derrell


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