Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 07:36:40 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Marc Hunter <hunter@hunter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Killing a FIN_WAIT_2 Message-ID: <20020418073640.N56548@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020417121658.00954290@192.168.0.64>; from hunter@hunter.net on Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:18:35PM -0700 References: <4.2.0.58.20020417121658.00954290@192.168.0.64>
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:18:35PM -0700, Marc Hunter wrote:
> I have a tcp connection that's sitting in FIN_WAIT_2 according to netstat
> -a, and it's locking up the port, preventing me from restarting my server
> app... I know those connections time out after some time, but is there any
> way of explicitly killing it? (other than rebooting)
There is no such thing. You should be able to restart the server
anyway if you set the SO_REUSEADDR on the socket:
setsockopt(fd4,SOL_SOCKET,SO_REUSEADDR,(char *)&x,sizeof(x))
Edwin
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