Killing a lingering TCP Connection

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Is their anyway to kill a TCP connection from the command line that is in
the FIN_WAIT state.?


Thanks

Kevin

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Kevin Brown <kbrown@bytewise.com> wrote:

Is their anyway to kill a TCP connection from the command line that is in
the FIN_WAIT state.?

I don’t think so.

But, you may want to set SO_REUSEADDR for the socket you are binding
(setsockopt()). That way, when you run your program again, it will
succeed on the bind.

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David Gibbs <dagibbs@qnx.com> wrote in news:a4bqb3$e1q$3@nntp.qnx.com:

Kevin Brown <> kbrown@bytewise.com> > wrote:
Is their anyway to kill a TCP connection from the command line that is
in the FIN_WAIT state.?

I don’t think so.

But, you may want to set SO_REUSEADDR for the socket you are binding
(setsockopt()). That way, when you run your program again, it will
succeed on the bind.

BSD sockets usually timeout the connection in around 11minutes.


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