New Features in Solaris Express 4/05

This section describes all features that are new or have been enhanced in the Solaris Express 4/05 release.

TCP Keepalive Tunables

This networking enhancement is new in the Solaris Express 4/05 release.

With this enhancement, application developers can now fine tune the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) keepalive mechanism on a per-socket basis. The tcp(7P) man page explains in detail how to use this enhancement.