Bryan Sant wrote: > On 3/17/06, Kenneth Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a way to force a socket to be closed? I had an application >> that was forcefully closed. I believe the kernel will eventually close >> it, but I would prefer not to have the several minute wait. Any >> suggestions? > > Does your socket sit in the FIN_WAIT or TIME_WAIT state?
TIME_WAIT. Is there a way to force it to finish the time wait. The problem is I cannot get the application to bind to the port till it has cleared. "I don't know about an individual socket, but you could play with the value in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout" Is the 60 in seconds, or minutes? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
