ndd clarification

[Mike McFarland]

The man page for ndd states
that there are "supported and unsupported tunable parameters." My question is, what is an "unsupported" parameter in HPUX? Does setting it have no effect? Is the effect undefined?

[Christopher McCray_1]

Hello,

# ndd -h unsupported
# ndd -h supported

This gives you a list and description of parameters and HP's stance on the unsuported ones.

Hope this helps

Chris

[Stefan Farrelly]

unsupported means try it at your peril. You should certainly be able to set these unsupported options but they results may not be as desired - and you will get NO help from HP if you contact them complaining they dont work or your server died. Generally, in my opinion, its perfectly aok to try them, theyve never screwed up any server ive used them on but sometimes they dont appear to actually do anything.

[harry d brown jr]

As Rick Jones of HP will tell you, if you break it you own it.

live free or die
harry

[Juan Manuel López]

Unsupperted parameter means there is not a reason to use it because the aplication responsible of the not normal tcp status is who have to close the connections like tcp international conventions.
On my case, there is an aplication who does not close properly the conections and live sockets on close-wait status that never close.
I have to close the sockets or stop the aplication and start it again. then the sockets on close wait desappear.

I hope my opinion could help you.

Juanma.