[Info-vax] TCPIP RWAST - FIN_WAIT_2

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-03-14 15:42:31 +0000, Tad Winters said:

> Honestly, I'm not a network guy, but I seem to remember a discussion 
> reminiscent of this problem. If the firewall, or other intervening 
> network device is filtering the connection, it may be removing or 
> changing a packet which completes the close of a connection.

Yeah, I mentioned firewalls in the other thread in this topic, as the 
OP decided to fork the thread for some reason. Some firewalls do eat 
some TCP packets. I had connections dangling with a firewall I was 
working with, pending its reconfiguration.

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