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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org>,
	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How I can reset TCP sockets after long suspend/resume cyscle
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:02:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <484702EC.30209@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080604092154.7511c9d3@extreme>

While I know of at least one OS/stack which allows a root user to issue 
a command to abort a TCP connection, (and it may be two given their 
shared history) its use was always strongly discouraged.

> TCP should recover from this anyway. As soon as any activity happens
> on the connection the other end will respond with reset.  For an IMAP
> session doing the next get-mail should cause a connection reset.
> Now it is possible that mail client has other problems.

And one way for there to be activity would be for the application(s) in 
question to have an application-layer keepalive mechanism, or at the 
very least, set SO_KEEPALIVE on their connections.  And if they don't 
want to rely on the sysadmin to have set what they consider a 
"reasonable" value for when to start sending keepalive probes, a 
TCP_KEEPIDLE setsockopt() perhaps.

rick jones

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-04 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-01 12:15 How I can reset TCP sockets after long suspend/resume cyscle Maxim Levitsky
2008-06-04 15:34 ` Maxim Levitsky
2008-06-04 16:09   ` Adam Langley
2008-06-04 16:21     ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-04 21:00       ` Maxim Levitsky
2008-06-04 21:02       ` Rick Jones [this message]
2008-06-04 20:52     ` Maxim Levitsky
2008-06-04 21:15       ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-04 21:23         ` Rick Jones
2008-06-05 21:31           ` Maxim Levitsky
2008-06-05 21:50             ` Rick Jones
2008-06-06  8:37             ` Benny Amorsen
2008-06-06  9:27               ` Nadejda Levitsky
2008-06-05  7:13 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-06-05 21:19   ` Maxim Levitsky
2008-06-05 22:20     ` Evgeniy Polyakov

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