Re: FIN_WAIT2 backoff on 1.3.92
Matthew J Brown (mjb@sophos.com)
Tue, 23 Apr 1996 21:25:52 +0100
Ulrich Windl writes:
> I think the problem is that for WAIT FIN_2 there's no timeout
> defined, because the other party should resend packets. Unfortunately
> some parties seem to leave early. This problem also exists in HP-UX
> 9.04; especially with WINSOCK clients (Novell LAN Workplace 4.2).
> HP offers a patch to add timeouts.
According to the RFCs there's no timeout in this state; however, the
Linux code implements the BSD practice of having a timeout in this
state. This timeout somehow seems to be broken in recent kernels.
It's not that linux doesn't try, but that something is not working
right.
-Matt