Patches for TCP buffer exhaustion problem

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

Chris Johns wrote:
> Phil Torre wrote:
> 
>>
>>         // Set always_keepalive to 1 (TRUE).  This is one of those 
>> new-fangled
>>         // dynamic sysctl variables, and RTEMS' sysctlbyname() doesn't 
>> seem to be
>>         // finished yet.  Sigh.
> 
> 
> It is not so much a case of not finished, but rather a case of not 
> knowing a further interface (sysctlbyname) is needed to access OID_AUTO 
> variables. :-)
> 
> I have found the code in the FreeBSD file:
> 
>   libc/gen/sysctlbyname.c
> 
> Maybe this file should be added to the cpukit/libnetwork/libc directory.
> 
> I have documented how to do this in the wiki:
> 
>  http://www.rtems.org/phpwiki/index.php/TCP-IP%20Setup
> 

Chris.. if this doesn't cause any problems, feel free to add it
to the appropriate place in the development tree once you
get it to compile.

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