Socket SO KEEPALIVE

External

• https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/SocketOptions.html

Internal

• Java Networking

Overview

All we can do on a Java socket is to turn TCP KeepAlive on or off - apparently on a per-socket based:

void setKeepAlive(boolean);
boolean getKeepAlive();

The KeepAlive parameters can be only set at the operating system level.

See: https://home.feodorov.com:9443/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=TCP#section-TCP-KeepAlive