From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 22 12:03:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA20965 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 12:03:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freya.circle.net (freya.circle.net [209.95.95.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA20926; Fri, 22 May 1998 12:03:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tcobb@staff.circle.net) Received: by freya.circle.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Fri, 22 May 1998 14:52:07 -0400 Message-ID: <509A2986E5C5D111B7DD0060082F32A402FA60@freya.circle.net> From: tcobb To: "'Jim Shankland'" , mark@vmunix.com, tlambert@primenet.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: TIME_WAIT/FIN_WAIT_2... Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 14:51:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message