Re: broken tcp ?

Eric.Schenk@dna.lth.se
Wed, 12 Mar 1997 07:36:54 +0100


"David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu> writes:
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 00:56:18 -0500
> From: Laslo Orto <Laslo@cpol.com>
>
> They stick around for days , untill i kill the proccess , somehow i dont
> think that they are supposed to stay that long :P
>
>Ok, thats a bug, if you see it again can you send me the output of
>"netstat -ntao" on the machine with the stuck connections?

Not necessarily. If these connetions don't have keepalives set then
they should sit in the ESTABLISHED state essentially forever as long
as they don't try to send anything.

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