From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 7 6:32:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E75114C2D for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 06:32:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA13671; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 15:32:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP sockets stuck in the CLOSING state References: <199911052219.PAA01743@panzer.kdm.org> <199911071414.JAA77246@whizzo.transsys.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Nov 1999 15:32:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Louis A. Mamakos"'s message of "Sun, 07 Nov 1999 09:14:00 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Louis A. Mamakos" writes: > I think your interpretation of the TCP spec is in error. Since the FIN > occupies sequence space, it's the same as unacknowledged data and should > be retransmitted, just like any unacked data in the window would be. > Eventually, the TCP stack should timeout the connection with an ACK-timeout. I believe you are correct. Thank you for pointing this out. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message