Don't forget to stuff the kernel buffers with a few (or many) megabytes of data before getting those connections 'stuck'.
The amount of time it will take for them to die off (as per the TCP spec) is 'infinity' since there is no provision in the protocol itself for detecting unresponsive peers. If your operating system implements a hack called 'tcp keepalive' then those connections will die in a couple of hours in a typical configuration.
The amount of time it will take for them to die off (as per the TCP spec) is 'infinity' since there is no provision in the protocol itself for detecting unresponsive peers. If your operating system implements a hack called 'tcp keepalive' then those connections will die in a couple of hours in a typical configuration.