Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 12:38:07 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few other concerns from a FreeBSD ISP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960114123615.213v-100000@cabal.io.org> In-Reply-To: <96Jan10.155941pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Bill Fenner wrote:
>
> I have always thought that this situation could only be attributed to
> one or the other end not waiting for 2*MSL before deleting connection
> information. In particular, if the source end cut its TIME_WAIT state
> short for some tcpcb, that port number could get reused while the
> server end was still in TIME_WAIT and thus completely ignoring all
> packets.
Hmmmm, okay, whatever you say. ;-)
> But I haven't yet gotten around to testing this theory; I can't say
> that I recall seeing this problem, so it may also be load-related,
> etc.
I don't think it is. I've seen it happen to individual
workstations as well as to shell servers with 100+ people on it. The
really irritating thing is that it works *most* of the time, under
either extreme of load condition. :(
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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