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From: honey@down.FUN (code 101)
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Subject: Purge 4.2BSD TCP tasks in FIN_WAIT_2 state?
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Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 23:00:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 23:00:47 1985
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Are there any tools for manually cleaning up after TCP?
Netstat output is as follows:

Active connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address      Foreign Address    (state)
tcp        0      0  flakey.login       quirky.1023        FIN_WAIT_2
tcp        0      0  flakey.fshare      down.659           FIN_WAIT_2

I have observed that they go away by themselves after some
indeterminate length of time -- sometimes minutes, sometimes days.
Aside from reboot or sleep large n, is there a tool to tell the
networking subsystem what's what?

	Peter