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

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
26 Jul 1999 15:33:10 +0200


vgb@isr.umd.edu (Vijay G. Bharadwaj) writes:

> 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.

A patch that should fix it is included in
ftp.firstfloor.org:/pub/ak/2.2.10-net-patchkit

-Andi

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