[zeromq-dev] Heartbeats and/or keep-alives

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Martin Lucina <mato at kotelna.sk> wrote:

> In Marcelo's specific case he will need to add it into other traffic;
> adding an extra socket won't help since his network will still declare the
> normal idle connection dead, so the hearbeat (or in this case keepalive)
> needs to travel along each TCP connection that might become idle.

Good point.  So for sub and pull sockets (and others probably) 0MQ
will eventually have to do heartbeating itself.

-Pieter