[Gllug] TCP connections not closing

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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Richard Cottrill stated:
> 
>>  Yes I'm aware about that, I've seen it before.
>>  What I don't get is why those particular connections are still hanging
>>  off when other ones have timed-out? And probably this is basic tcp stuff,
>>  but which machine sets the TTL, the web server or the client?
> 
> TTL is an IP layer thing, so it's connectionless and set by whichever
> machine sends that particular packet; ie bot the client and websever
> will set TTL for 'their' packets.

TTL is part of ip_conntrack_proto_tcp, and is thoroughly *not*
connectionless :)

The table I quoted above shows that there are different timeouts for
connections in different states... the TCP-level timeouts are quite
different from the ones being printed here by iptstate.

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