Aggressive TCP keepalive/keepidle settings

...to match Pivotal's equally aggressive firewall setttings'
vmware-archive · Jan 8, 2013 · 3172d8e · 3172d8e
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+pivotal_workstation_sysctl "send keepalive packets" do
+  name "net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive"
+  value "1"
+end
+
+pivotal_workstation_sysctl "send keepalive packets every 74.5 seconds" do
+  name "net.inet.tcp.keepidle"
+  value "149000"
+end