From: Reza Roboubi <reza@parvan.net>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: TCP_LINGER2 TIME_WAIT
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:08:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E96066.2030505@parvan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73ir6eyk7d.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> Reza Roboubi <reza@parvan.net> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> The whole point of TIME-WAIT is catching old packets still in network.
> Killing it early would avoid its purpose.
tcp_max_tw_buckets does exactly that system wide, and for good reason.
Why not give userspace oversight over the process?
Reza.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-13 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-13 3:54 TCP_LINGER2 TIME_WAIT Reza Roboubi
2007-09-13 9:43 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-13 16:08 ` Reza Roboubi [this message]
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