Re: [SLUG] Telnet from the Borg

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 01:09:03PM +1000, Aravind Naidu wrote:
> We had a similar problem with a sockets application.
> 
> It has got to do with the TCP/IP stack of the client (in this MS Win) and
> the server.

I think you'll find this particular problem is dependant upon which
service pack is installed.

> About 5 years back, I was having this same problem with the Firefox IP stack
> on Netware going to HPUX. We never had problems going from Firefox to AIX,
> but with the HPUX, the socket connections used to time_wait/fin_wait, if the
> program terminated abnormally.
> 
> On AIX, the cleanup interval is specified by the command "no" (network
> options) and I vaguely remember that it being a kernel parameter on HPUX
> that you modify using SAM. Not sure what it is on Linux.

More than likely /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout but I haven't
checked throughly yet.

Anand
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