added tcp keepalive support to back-ldap

[openldap] / doc / man / man5 / slapd-ldap.5

diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-ldap.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-ldap.5
index 1244d1fe088101d645b41a9074990a1a5ef62e2b..7b2ab181a2b7cce4b75849886d2754ba750b2abc 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-ldap.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-ldap.5
@@ -422,6 +422,25 @@ for details on the syntax of this field.
 This directive causes a cached connection to be dropped an recreated
 after it has been idle for the specified time.
 
+.TP
+.B keepalive  <idle>:<probes>:<interval>
+The
+.B keepalive
+parameter sets the values of \fIidle\fP, \fIprobes\fP, and \fIinterval\fP
+used to check whether a socket is alive;
+.I idle
+is the number of seconds a connection needs to remain idle before TCP 
+starts sending keepalive probes;
+.I probes
+is the maximum number of keepalive probes TCP should send before dropping
+the connection;
+.I interval
+is interval in seconds between individual keepalive probes.
+Only some systems support the customization of these values;
+the
+.B keepalive
+parameter is ignored otherwise, and system-wide settings are used.
+
 .TP
 .B network\-timeout <time>
 Sets the network timeout value after which