I have experienced problems with terminations of TCP-sockets. 

1) My side is actively sending a large amount of data to a rather 
   slow peer.

2) The peer suddenly dies. 

3) The socket-state becomes CLOSE_WAIT, and will stay so until the 
   sending process is killed. 

4) If the sending process is killed, the socket-state will turn into 
   LAST_ACK, and will stay so "forever". 

5) This "forever", might sometimes only last for a few weeks or months.
   

I run kernel v2.0.36. 

Any ideas about this problem?  Or any suggestion how I could try to 
locate the error in the kernel? 
At present I do have two sockets hanging as described, one in CLOSE_WAIT 
with an attached process, and another in LAST_ACK without any process.


/Henrik

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