[e2e] Is this a bug with Windows TCP Stack ?

Bob Braden braden at ISI.EDU
Mon Dec 6 14:44:37 PST 2004


  *> 
  *> Is there progress afoot to update the TCP specs with a standardized mechanism to deal with the possibility of infinite time in FIN_WAIT_2?
  *> 
  *> rick jones
  *> 

Half-open connections are a feature of TCP.  You may not like the
feature (successive generation of Unix kernel builders have hated it)
but it is a feature.

Bob Braden


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