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Date:      Sun, 4 Mar 2007 13:28:14 +0545
From:      Tek Bahadur Limbu <teklimbu@wlink.com.np>
To:        Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fw: FIN_WAIT_2
Message-ID:  <20070304132814.e959303e.teklimbu@wlink.com.np>
In-Reply-To: <004801c75d91$f809ee70$6501a8c0@GRANT>
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 07:46:31 -0500
"Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> wrote:

> Do you have ipfw or other firewall running?
> 
> Did you restart the network?
> 
> -Grant

Hi Grant,

Yes I do have IPFW running.
Well I did not restart the network interface of my NIC card.


> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tek Bahadur Limbu" <teklimbu@wlink.com.np>
> To: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 6:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Fw: FIN_WAIT_2
> 
> 
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> > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:13:49 -0500
> > "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi All,
> >> 
> >> I have done some research ...
> >> 
> >> It appears that inn certain conditions, when the 
> >> net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_keepalive=1 (sysctl), remote clients or other
> >> servers may not respond, and a new rule or dynamic rule is setup.
> >> turning this to 0 seemed to help.
> >> 
> >> The effect (of having net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_keepalive=1) is that over
> >> time, hundreds of FIN_WAIT_2 tcp states occure. With some software,
> >> (vm-pop3d), it runs out of sockets, and I suspect the daemon does
> >> not know how to hadle this.
> >> 
> >> So do a:
> >> 
> >> sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_keepalive=0
> >> 
> >> and in about 10 minutes all FIN_WAIT_2 's dissappear. (well almost
> >> all).
> >> 
> >> I expect it virtually shut down dynamic rules too in ipfw, but I
> >> have been reading more and more that people are saying don't use
> >> dynamics on a busy site. Anyone care to comment.
> >> 
> >> -Grant
> > 
> > Hi Grant,
> > 
> > I have set sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_keepalive=0. But both
> > FIN_WAIT_1 and FIN_WAIT_2 does not seem to disappear. Even now, my
> > squid proxy box shows:
> > 
> > 15 CLOSE_WAIT
> >   5 CLOSING
> > 2260 ESTABLISHED
> > 2083 FIN_WAIT_1
> > 829 FIN_WAIT_2
> > 132 LAST_ACK
> >   5 LISTEN
> >  28 SYN_SENT
> > 177 TIME_WAIT
> >   1 been
> > 
> > Can you shed some light on this ?
> > 
> > Thanking you..
> > 
> > - -- 
> > 
> > 
> > With best regards and good wishes,
> > 
> > Yours sincerely,
> > 
> > Tek Bahadur Limbu
> > 
> > (TAG/TDG Group)
> > Jwl Systems Department
> > 
> > Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd.
> > 
> > Jawalakhel, Nepal
> > 
> > http://www.wlink.com.np
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With best regards and good wishes,

Yours sincerely,

Tek Bahadur Limbu

(TAG/TDG Group)
Jwl Systems Department

Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd.

Jawalakhel, Nepal

http://www.wlink.com.np
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