barrym@infmx.UUCP (Barry Mednick) (10/03/89)
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