> According to a small utility called msl_test distributed with the
> Polygraph web cache benchmarking suite the Linux 2.2.13 TCP stack has a
> TIME_WAIT of 2 seconds.
It is supposed to timewait for 60 seconds. I have no idea, what
msl_test does, please, check this with tcpdump. Probably, it is a bug.
> As far as I can tell, the TCP specs recommend
> 60 seconds.
Actually, specs insist on much longer value. 60 seconds is one of BSDisms.
Alexey Kuznetsov
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