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From: "Trever L. Adams" <vichu@digitalme.com>
To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Cc: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.COM>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ip_conntrack & timing out of connections
Date: 07 Nov 2001 14:41:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1005162108.1222.1.camel@aurora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200111071855.VAA07803@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200111071855.VAA07803@ms2.inr.ac.ru>

On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 13:55, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
> > > From: pcg@goof.com
> ...
> > > linux-2.4.13-ac5 (other versions untested) has this peculiar behaviour: If I
> > > "killall -STOP thttpd", I, of course, still get connection requests which
> > > usually time out:
> > >
> > > tcp      238      0 217.227.148.85:80       213.76.191.129:3120 CLOSE_WAIT
> 
> Blatant lie. Such connections cannot timeout. If they do, kernel really
> have fatal bug.
> 

Then the kernel (iptables or what not) has a huge fatal bug.  I have
seen this happen as well.  The firewall then catches all of these 'ACK
FIN' etc.  This is getting more rare for me and usually takes a moderate
to heavy load (for link capacity) before it starts happening, but it
does happen.

Trever



  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-07 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-06 11:19 ip_conntrack & timing out of connections Lehmann 
2001-11-06 13:07 ` Rasmus Bøg Hansen
2001-11-06 18:39 ` David Lang
2001-11-07 18:55   ` kuznet
2001-11-07 19:41     ` Trever L. Adams [this message]
2001-11-11 22:38 ` Harald Welte

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