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From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 15:13 EDT
Subject: Re: TIME_WAIT/FIN_WAIT_2...
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> Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 09:43:04 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
> 
> The reason for the 11 minute wait is so that if the client is just
> slow going through its shutdown stuff, the server can still walk the
> client through an orderly close.  On the other hand, maybe 11 minutes
> is too long?  I'll bet nothing terrible happens if that timeout drops
> to 1 minute ... or 30 seconds.  Even 0 would at worst lead to some
> unnecessary RST's on closing connections.  Anyone have any thoughts on
> this?

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