Bill Pringlemeir wrote: > On 20 May 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>> Bill Pringlemeir wrote: > > >> "http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl7_tcp.htm"; > >> > >> TCP_LINGER2 > >> > >> The lifetime of orphaned FIN_WAIT2 state sockets. This option can > >> be used to override the system wide sysctl tcp_fin_timeout on this > >> socket. This is not to be confused with the socket(7) level option > >> SO_LINGER. This option should not be used in code intended to be > >> portable. > >> > >> A negative value will send a RST immediately (from what I see). > >> Not a nice option to use, I understand... but it will possibly > >> clear the ip_conntrack entries as a RST will be sent clearing the > >> hash entry. > > > Yes, I've read now that Linux doesn't implement this because it's > > not documented behaviour or the like. > > btw, this seems to be working wonderfully in the new releases.
Do you use the "use_so_linger" option now? Otherwise, there shouldn't have changed anything as far as I recall. -- Christian
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