From owner-freebsd-net Wed Nov 3 22:30: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from jerry.kfunigraz.ac.at (GIGAJERRY.kfunigraz.ac.at [143.50.55.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C63214F0D for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 22:29:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mkamm@tom.kfunigraz.ac.at) Received: from tom.kfunigraz.ac.at (mc_tom [10.10.1.160]) by jerry.kfunigraz.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA28236 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 07:28:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost.kfunigraz.ac.at (BONLINEB13.kfunigraz.ac.at [143.50.33.13]) by tom.kfunigraz.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA07603 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 07:28:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (mkamm@localhost) by localhost.kfunigraz.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00484 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 19:54:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mkamm@localhost.kfunigraz.ac.at) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 19:54:15 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Kammerhofer Reply-To: Martin Kammerhofer To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD reboots In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Note: fw2 := FIN_WAIT_2 On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: : because it breaks teh standard and teh networking guru's don't like it. : Starting the 2MSL timer when fw2 state is entered is also breaking the standard and a (useful) hack. ;) Having a sysctlable fw2 timeout like other OSes would be nice though. Currently you have to tweak net.inet.tcp.keepintvl because this totally unrelated parameter is re-used (abused) for fw2 timeouts. I'd like to see a net.inet.tcp.finwait2tmout knob. (A proposed patch for this can be found in this mailing list's archive.) Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message