commit addecff68b5a28bedd4d2feea9c8064c720cf410
author Chengyu Fan <chengy.fan@gmail.com> Tue Feb 10 14:09:01 2015 -0700
committer Junxiao Shi <sunnylandh@gmail.com> Wed Feb 18 07:18:29 2015 -0800
tree 20051407056ca598d0d2fbddb04702a39b2c8bd0
parent 4d384fcce548712fdf87ab2e7fc35cba4816f03c

management: clarify the inconsistency in UDP face timeouts in nfd.conf

refs #2473

Change-Id: Iceeda5f03bc426dfab1e67cf508996d3fe96ac42

nfd.conf.sample.in

diff --git a/nfd.conf.sample.in b/nfd.conf.sample.in
index 908ad7b..fa229b4 100644
--- a/nfd.conf.sample.in
+++ b/nfd.conf.sample.in
@@ -92,7 +92,11 @@
     port 6363 ; UDP unicast port number
     enable_v4 yes ; set to 'no' to disable IPv4 channels, default 'yes'
     enable_v6 yes ; set to 'no' to disable IPv6 channels, default 'yes'
-    idle_timeout 600 ; idle time (seconds) before closing a UDP unicast face
+
+    ; idle time (seconds) before closing a UDP unicast face, the actual timeout would be
+    ; anywhere within [idle_timeout, 2*idle_timeout), default is 600
+    idle_timeout 600
+
     keep_alive_interval 25; interval (seconds) between keep-alive refreshes
 
     ; UDP multicast settings