[e2e] tcp connection timeout

Lars Eggert lars.eggert at netlab.nec.de
Tue Feb 28 23:59:11 PST 2006


On Feb 28, 2006, at 20:12, Ted Faber wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:06:37AM +0100, Lars Eggert wrote:
>> On Feb 28, 2006, at 7:27, Kun Huang wrote:
>>> I recently got a TCP connection timeout error.
>>>
>>> If both side don't send packets for a long time while connection is
>>> open, is there a default time out to abort the connection?
>>
>> draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-uto-02.txt talks about this.
>
> That's for proposed new function.  The behavior you see is  
> documented in
> RFC 793 and RFC 1122.

Right; the intro has an overview of the existing functionality  
though. (I should have included this in my original mail.)

Lars
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Lars Eggert                                     NEC Network Laboratories


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