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

[Guo-Fu Tseng]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:57:54 +0200, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote
> 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
Yes, Michael's patches are quite neat as usual. :p
I'll merge them to my latest patch series.
Thank you Michael! :)

Guo-Fu Tseng