what is the best way to do keep alive socket checking in .NET?

Question

I am looking for a way to do a keep alive check in .NET. The scenario is for both UDP and TCP.

Currently in TCP what I do is that one side connects and when there is

Answer 1

If you literally mean "KeepAlive", try the following.

    public static void SetTcpKeepAlive(Socket socket, uint keepaliveTime, uint keepaliveInterval)
    {
        /* the native structure
        struct tcp_keepalive {
        ULONG onoff;
        ULONG keepalivetime;
        ULONG keepaliveinterval;
        };
        */

        // marshal the equivalent of the native structure into a byte array
        uint dummy = 0;
        byte[] inOptionValues = new byte[Marshal.SizeOf(dummy) * 3];
        BitConverter.GetBytes((uint)(keepaliveTime)).CopyTo(inOptionValues, 0);
        BitConverter.GetBytes((uint)keepaliveTime).CopyTo(inOptionValues, Marshal.SizeOf(dummy));
        BitConverter.GetBytes((uint)keepaliveInterval).CopyTo(inOptionValues, Marshal.SizeOf(dummy) * 2);

        // write SIO_VALS to Socket IOControl
        socket.IOControl(IOControlCode.KeepAliveValues, inOptionValues, null);
    }

Note the time units are in milliseconds.