[ECOS] Re: RedBoot TCP socket stays in TIME_WAIT state forever.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-04-05, Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:

> AFAICT, the only way to get out of _TIME_WAIT state is if
> somebody called tcp_send() while in that state so that a timer
> gets set with the do_close() callback.
>
> How would tcp_send() ever get called once we've hit step 4)
> above?  Everything's been ACKed so there is no reason for the
> stack itself to ever try to send anything, and calling
> __tcp_write() in the application code is just going to return
> immediately becuase the socket isn't in a valid state for
> calling write().
>
> Shouldn't the 1s/2m timer be set when the socket transitions to
> the _TIME_WAIT state?

Moving __timer_set(&s->timer, s->reuse ? 1000 : 120000, do_close, s)
to the places where the state transitions to _TIME_WAIT seems to 
have fixed the problem.

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Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow!  I am NOT a nut....
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