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Date:      Sun, 04 Apr 2004 16:31:09 -0600
From:      Brandon Erhart <berhart@ErhartGroup.COM>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FIN_WAIT_[1,2] and LAST_ACK
Message-ID:  <6.0.2.0.2.20040404163034.01c82c80@mx1.erhartgroup.com>
In-Reply-To: <40708B96.4050905@mac.com>
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I want to explicitly get it out of those states, without any help from the 
other end. What must I modify to achieve this?

Brandon

At 04:26 PM 4/4/2004, you wrote:
>Brandon Erhart wrote:
>[ ... ]
>>Any advice on the timeouts? I don't really care about the RFC , honestly 
>>:-P. Like I said, I'm going for sheer speed.
>
>My advice was to read the RFC as it contains significant discussion about 
>these timeouts, but you're free to disregard it if you please.
>
>In particular, the discussion of FIN/ACK handling is relevant, since a TCP 
>implementation ought to move through the various FIN_WAIT states rapidly 
>if both sides agree to close and don't have more data to send.  Using 
>tcpdump to verify what's going on might help you figure out why the 
>connections are lingering around...
>
>--
>-Chuck



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