From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 22 11:45:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16806 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 11:45:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from postman.true.net (s1.admin.true.net [161.196.66.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16714; Fri, 22 May 1998 11:45:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lem@cantv.net) Received: from fwb-1.true.net (fwb-1.true.net [200.11.129.3]) by postman.true.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA09684; Fri, 22 May 1998 14:44:58 -0400 (VET) Received: from lem.cantv.net (root@localhost) by fwb-1.true.net (8.8.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA14530; Fri, 22 May 1998 14:44:56 -0400 (VET) X-BlackMail: ws-7.chacao-1.cantv.net, lem.cantv.net, lem@cantv.net, 200.44.44.23 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 14:44:57(VET) on May 22, 1998 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980522144033.00827400@pop.cantv.net> X-Sender: lem@pop.cantv.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 14:40:33 -0400 To: Jim Shankland From: Luis Munoz Subject: Re: TIME_WAIT/FIN_WAIT_2... Cc: mark@vmunix.com, tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199805221643.JAA01914@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:43 AM 22/05/1998 -0700, Jim Shankland wrote: [snip] >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? IMHO, this should be configurable by a sysctl object. Those sockets are tying resources on the server and as someone else has told, most of them come from buggy client implementations, so they deserve the RST anyway :) -lem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message