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Date:      Sun, 28 Mar 1999 12:23:25 -0800
From:      Nocturne <dpilgrim@uswest.net>
To:        rkw@dataplex.net
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TCP sockets not closing
Message-ID:  <36FE8FBD.7BCD8192@uswest.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903280916110.53460-100000@nomad.dataplex.net>

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Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
>I have LARGE number of sockets that at taking a long time to go away.
>I assume that some piece of code is failing to do everything that it is
>supposed to do.
>
>Can someone identify the culprit?
>
>Server side:
<snip>
>icmp       0      0  *.*                    *.*
>tcp        0      0  server.http            client.3798         CLOSE_WAIT
<more snips>
>Client side:
>icmp       0      0  *.*                    *.*
>tcp        0      0  client.3798            server.http         FIN_WAIT_2
<even more snips>
>tcp        0      0  client.3796            server.http         FIN_WAIT_2
>tcp        0      0  client.3794            server.http         FIN_WAIT_2

CLOSE_WAIT and FIN_WAIT_2 are the states of the connections as they
wait to timeout--they're already closed.  An open connection will have
ESTABLISHED next to it.

On other words, this is normal.

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