Re: possible dos / wsize affected frozen connection length

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

CaT <cat@zip.com.au> wrote:
> 
> I'm just wondering if connections hanging around this long are normal.
> The above has now been running for 6 days. netstat is still reporting an
> established session. netcat has not timed out. It's all just sitting
> there doing nothing.

TCP connections without keepalives can sit there for all eternity,
if your machine lasts that long :)
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