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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:41:36 -0800
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Tge B <tge.bsd@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bizarre TIME_WAIT socket buildup problem
Message-ID:  <8EE034DE-AB49-4E93-B796-8D8B70E3D6FD@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <83fad2cc0801250937j21345911v3ab98110958ca335@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <83fad2cc0801250937j21345911v3ab98110958ca335@mail.gmail.com>

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On Jan 25, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Tge B wrote:
> On FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE (GENERIC i386), I am experiencing a rather  
> worrying
> situation: connections to some ports (namely, 80 and
> 25) end up in a TIME_WAIT state - normal - but none have been removed
> in the last 24 hours. My net.inet.tcp.msl was set to the default  
> 30000,
> a few hours ago I changed it to 5000 to no avail - all new connections
> end up in the TIME_WAIT line, at the bottom of which are connections
> from almost 24 hours ago that have been in the TIME_WAIT state ever  
> since.

I believe there was bug there which has been fixed in later 6.x  
releases; please try upgrading to 6.3.

-- 
-Chuck




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