From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Oct 19 01:00:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA01861 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 01:00:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA01856 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 01:00:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id BAA27548; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 01:00:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 01:00:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810190800.BAA27548@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: Marc Slemko Subject: Re: bin/8369: netstat seems to miss a connection Reply-To: Marc Slemko Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/8369; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Marc Slemko 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message