Re: The dreadful CLOSE_WAIT

[Måns Rullgård]

DervishD <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>     Hi all :))
>
>     Seems under Linux that, when a connection is in the CLOSE_WAIT
> state, the only wait to go to LAST_ACK is the application doing the
> 'shutdown()' or 'close()'. Doesn't seem to be a timeout for that.

Is that why some programs seem to hang forever when my NAT gateway
decides to drop a connection?

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxx

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