Re: TCP TIME-WAIT bug in Linux 2.2.5 (still there I think)

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Sun, 25 Jul 1999 14:40:28 -0700

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 17:00:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Vijay G. Bharadwaj" <vgb@isr.umd.edu>

Linux 2.2.5 (and I think later versions as well - I can't find a
fix in the patch sets for 2.2 or 2.3) does not ACK a FIN received
when in TIME-WAIT. This leads to connections on the remote host
taking longer to die than they should, and connections on the Linux
host remaining in TIME-WAIT longer than they should.

We know about this fallacy and are working on fixes to go into 2.2.11

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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