TIME_WAIT Assassination in FreeBSD???

[Jarrod Lee Petz]

Hi Guys,

Doug, I can appreciate your stance. I realize my problem description does
not state any impact to FreeBSD and so I am unlikely to get a response on
that. However I would like to know the theory behind how TCP/IP and FTP
should handle this. One question, which list would have been more
appropriate (freebsd-net)? Also just so you know I did get some other
responses privately. Thanks you for your feedback.

Erik, I think your right about testing how BSD would react. I'll run up a
BSD VM on Monday(Australia time). If it works maybe I can deduce from the
tcpdump why and what is does different. If it doesn't well, I'll have
another test case and a little more insight.

Regards Jarrod


-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Barton [mailto:dougb at FreeBSD.org] 
Sent: Sunday, 4 September 2011 9:35 AM
To: Erik Trulsson
Cc: freebsd-hackers at FreeBSD.org; petz at nisshoko.net; Jarrod Lee Petz
Subject: Re: TIME_WAIT Assassination in FreeBSD???

On 09/03/2011 06:46, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 10:25:11PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 09/02/2011 17:51, Jarrod Lee Petz wrote:
>>> Hi Doug,
>>>
>>> The problem itself is currently seen on AIX yes.
>>
>> So you're much more likely to get help on an AIX list.
> 
> Unlikely, since what he primarily asked about was if the problem in
> question also exists on FreeBSD.  That is something that AIX people are
> unlikely to know anything about.

I'd argue with "primarily," but since one other person has told me
privately that they think my response was wrong, I'll respond publicly
with my rationale.

1. His question is unlikely to get answered
2. ... at least in part because he mailed the wrong list
3. ... therefore I'm trying to manage expectations.

Now, oddly enough, I notice that my responses to the OP are a hot topic
of conversation, but no one has bothered to actually answer his
questions. Hmmmmm.....


Doug

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