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Date:      Fri, 22 May 1998 14:51:57 -0400
From:      tcobb <tcobb@staff.circle.net>
To:        "'Jim Shankland'" <jas@flyingfox.com>, mark@vmunix.com, tlambert@primenet.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: TIME_WAIT/FIN_WAIT_2...
Message-ID:  <509A2986E5C5D111B7DD0060082F32A402FA60@freya.circle.net>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Shankland [mailto:jas@flyingfox.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 1998 12:43 PM
> To: mark@vmunix.com; tlambert@primenet.com
> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: TIME_WAIT/FIN_WAIT_2...
[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?

I'd love to see it as a sysctl tuning option :)

just $0.02 worth,

-Troy Cobb
 Circle Net, Inc.
 http://www.circle.net

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