Re: Adjusting timeout value for FIN_WAIT2?

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:44:24 +0000 (GMT)

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> How does one go about tweaking the timeout values for FIN_WAIT2? On this
> somewhat loaded web server it's typical to get several hundred FIN_WAIT2
> sockets.

One doesn't. Its specified in RFC793/RFC1122 and the values are about the
shortest safe ones [Actually Ian Heavens has shown even that isnt totally
safe as there are protocol bugs]

Alan

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