Why sometimes linux kernel does not reply the ACK of second FIN packet?

Why sometimes linux kernel does not reply the ACK of second FIN packet?

[Treker Chen]

Hi all

I was wondering if anyone know sometimes linux kernel seems does not
reply the ACK to the second FIN packet?
I tried it on Linux Ubuntu804Server 2.6.24-16-server #1 SMP Thu Apr 10
13:58:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

and here is the tcpdump log

22:24:37.444551 IP 192.168.6.3.42049 > 192.168.6.30.22: S
880658043:880658043(0) win 5840 <mss 1000,sackOK,timestamp 405800485
0,nop,wscale 7>
22:24:37.445091 IP 192.168.6.30.22 > 192.168.6.3.42049: S
1391057992:1391057992(0) ack 880658044 win 5792 <mss
1460,sackOK,timestamp 68876023 405800485,nop,wscale 6>
22:24:37.445182 IP 192.168.6.3.42049 > 192.168.6.30.22: . ack 1 win 46
<nop,nop,timestamp 405800485 68876023>
22:24:37.453582 IP 192.168.6.30.22 > 192.168.6.3.42049: P 1:39(38) ack
1 win 91 <nop,nop,timestamp 68876024 405800485>
22:24:37.453663 IP 192.168.6.3.42049 > 192.168.6.30.22: . ack 39 win
46 <nop,nop,timestamp 405800486 68876024>
22:24:39.183281 IP 192.168.6.3.42049 > 192.168.6.30.22: P 1:3(2) ack
39 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 405800659 68876024>
22:24:39.183846 IP 192.168.6.30.22 > 192.168.6.3.42049: . ack 3 win 91
<nop,nop,timestamp 68876196 405800659>
22:24:39.183899 IP 192.168.6.30.22 > 192.168.6.3.42049: P 39:58(19)
ack 3 win 91 <nop,nop,timestamp 68876196 405800659>
22:24:39.183934 IP 192.168.6.3.42049 > 192.168.6.30.22: . ack 58 win
46 <nop,nop,timestamp 405800659 68876196>
22:24:39.183952 IP 192.168.6.30.22 > 192.168.6.3.42049: F 58:58(0) ack
3 win 91 <nop,nop,timestamp 68876196 405800659>
22:24:39.184636 IP 192.168.6.3.42049 > 192.168.6.30.22: F 3:3(0) ack
59 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 405800659 68876196>
22:24:39.185093 IP 192.168.6.30.22 > 192.168.6.3.42049: . ack 4 win 91
<nop,nop,timestamp 68876196 405800659>

you can see at the end there is only one ACK packet and sometimes it
did. does any one know the possible reason?
I am asking this because with a high traffic server, it caused lots'
of connection in TIME_WAIT state, and i was suspecting that's causing
the issue.

please kindly CC to my email address. thanks

Regards
Treker

Re: Why sometimes linux kernel does not reply the ACK of second FIN packet?

[David Miller]

You're more likely to get a response on the networking developer
list (netdev@vger.kernel.org), than here.