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Date:      Mon, 19 Oct 1998 01:00:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/8369: netstat seems to miss a connection
Message-ID:  <199810190800.BAA27548@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/8369; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To: andrew@ugh.net.au
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/8369: netstat seems to miss a connection
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:56:32 -0700 (PDT)

 On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 andrew@ugh.net.au wrote:
 
 > >Description:
 > 
 > I'm making a port and it is ftping a file from ftp.freebsd.org but the
 > connection is marked as FIN_WAIT_2 in netstat. The file is arriving according
 > to fetch and the modem receive light is full on but netstat says:
 > 
 > Active Internet connections
 > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)
 > tcp        0      0  ts1m48.the-gc.ne.1037  foxy.ion.com.au.8080   FIN_WAIT_2
 > tcp        0      0  ts1m13.the-gc.ne.1031  foxy.ion.com.au.8080   FIN_WAIT_2
 
 Perfectly legitimate.
 
 FIN_WAIT_2 is a valid state when the connection has been half closed.  No
 more data can be sent, but it can (and is) still accepting data.
 
 Using the -b option to fetch will avoid this, but it isn't a problem so
 there is no reason to avoid it.
 

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