I wrote:
>I just did two "$ socket -w -q linuxbox echo < .newsrc"
>from another, external HP-UX machine, then interrupted them (-w means
>'write only'). This had some bad effects on what 1.3.66 thinks about the state
>of its sockets:
>Active Internet connections
>Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (State) User
>tcp 49388 51636 myhost.ciw.uni-ka:echo myhp.rz.uni-karls:3220 ESTABLISHED root
>tcp 50644 52732 myhost.ciw.uni-ka:echo myhp.rz.uni-karls:3228 ESTABLISHED root
>On the other hand, the HP box thinks the two connections are in
>FIN_WAIT_1, with 8192 bytes still to be sent. Looking at tcpdump,
>the Linux box sends 'ack 0, win 0' packets on these ports to
>the HP every now and then. The HP box doesn't answer.
-- Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet. The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.