Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 14:40:33 -0400 From: Luis Munoz <lem@cantv.net> To: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> Cc: mark@vmunix.com, tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TIME_WAIT/FIN_WAIT_2... Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980522144033.00827400@pop.cantv.net> In-Reply-To: <199805221643.JAA01914@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
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At 09:43 AM 22/05/1998 -0700, Jim Shankland wrote: [snip] >The reason for the 11 minute wait is so that if the client is just >slow going through its shutdown stuff, the server can still walk the >client through an orderly close. On the other hand, maybe 11 minutes >is too long? I'll bet nothing terrible happens if that timeout drops >to 1 minute ... or 30 seconds. Even 0 would at worst lead to some >unnecessary RST's on closing connections. Anyone have any thoughts on >this? IMHO, this should be configurable by a sysctl object. Those sockets are tying resources on the server and as someone else has told, most of them come from buggy client implementations, so they deserve the RST anyway :) -lem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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