From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 28 13:56:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F89314C4F for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:56:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 2010 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 1999 21:56:22 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 1995 invoked by uid 0); 28 Mar 1999 21:56:22 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 28 Mar 1999 21:56:22 -0000 Message-ID: <36FEA57F.3542F867@uswest.net> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:56:15 -0800 From: Nocturne Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rkw@dataplex.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP sockets not closing References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Please keep this on the list] Richard Wackerbarth wrote: >On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Nocturne wrote: >> Richard Wackerbarth wrote: >> 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. >> >> In other words, this is normal. > >I had assumed that one side had closed and the other side was not >completely closed. If both sides agreed that they were closed, I >would expect the connection to disappear. > >Does this imply that there is an upper limit to the rate at which >we can establish and break down tcp connections from one host to a >fixed port on another host? The timeout appears to be long (10-15 minutes, >or more) That would limit us to perhaps 1000 connections per minute or >only once every 60 ms sustained. AFAIK, connections can be re-opened before they timeout completely. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey availble To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message