Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!pyramid!infmx!barrym From: barrym@infmx.UUCP (Barry Mednick) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: finwait2 bug in tcp/ip Keywords: finwait2 tcp/ip sockets Message-ID: <2458@infmx.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 89 15:38:33 GMT Distribution: usa Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA. Lines: 16 Could someone please send me the solution to the FINWAIT2 TCP/IP bug? Here is the problem we have: An Informix frontend application runs on a Compaq 386 using Ungermann- Bass Net-One. A socket connection is made to a Pyramid running Unix. If the PC is rebooted while the backend on the Pyramid is idle, the backend goes into a FINWAIT2 state and never cleans itself up. When the PC user tries to reestablish the connection, the socket call succeeds but the connect call fails. I understand that there is a shell script that solves the problem by opening /dev/kmem and stepping on the socket structure. Thanks. Please mail to pyramid!infmx!barrym