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Re: An amusing test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
Sat May 25 02:47:59 1996
From: inr-linux-net@ms2.inr.ac.ru (really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: 24 May 1996 14:39:36 +0400
David S. Miller (davem@caip.RUtgers.EDU) wrote:
: Well, besides flooding the net with arp requests for a minute or so it
: produces "sock destroy delayed"'s out the wazoo unless every ip on
: your subnet has a machine talking on it which is unusual ;-)
It is normal behaviour. ARP tries to locate host for ~15 sec,
so that close of any socket connected to non-existent host
will delay for ~15sec.
Alexey Kuznetsov.
