From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763696AbXIMDyo (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:54:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761420AbXIMDyP (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:54:15 -0400 Received: from idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca ([24.71.223.10]:49937 "EHLO pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760113AbXIMDyN (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:54:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:54:57 -0700 From: Reza Roboubi Subject: TCP_LINGER2 TIME_WAIT To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Message-id: <46E8B491.2080107@parvan.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org man 7 tcp says TCP_LINGER2 sets the lifetime of orphaned FIN_WAIT2 state sockets. What about wanting to forcibly kill a "rotten" TCP socket in any other "WAIT" state like TIME_WAIT? Thanks. Reza.