[ipxe-devel] TCP FIN problems (was: Re: [gPXE-devel] [PULL] ipxe-sync)

Piotr Jaroszyński p.jaroszynski at gmail.com
Thu Jul 15 20:57:54 UTC 2010


2010/7/15 Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org>:
> On Wednesday 07 Jul 2010 13:26:18 Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
>> P.S. What do you think about the FIN issue? Are you planning on
>> working on it or maybe have a general idea on how to best approach
>> fixing it?
>
> I have tracked down and fixed what I believe to be the two problems relating to
> TCP connection closing:
>
>  http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/c57e263
>  http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/f033694
>
> I have tested with a setup in which I was previously able to reproduce your
> problem (server keeps retransmitting final FIN which is never ACKed by iPXE),
> and it now seems to work.
>
> Further testing would be much appreciated!

Seems to be passing my tests as well.

Guo-Fu, how do these correlate with your changes? I think it would be
nice to sync them and maybe cooperate a little more in the future :)

-- 
Best Regards
Piotr Jaroszyński



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