1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: keepalive-cnt 5Arg: <integer> 6Help: Maximum number of keepalive probes 7Added: 8.9.0 8Category: connection 9Multi: single 10See-also: 11 - keepalive-time 12 - no-keepalive 13Example: 14 - --keepalive-cnt 3 $URL 15--- 16 17# `--keepalive-cnt` 18 19Set the maximum number of keepalive probes TCP should send but get no response 20before dropping the connection. This option is usually used in conjunction 21with --keepalive-time. 22 23This option is supported on Linux, *BSD/macOS, Windows \>=10.0.16299, Solaris 2411.4, and recent AIX, HP-UX and more. This option has no effect if 25--no-keepalive is used. 26 27If unspecified, the option defaults to 9. 28
