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	Title		: Avoiding the TCP TIME_WAIT state at Busy Servers
	Author(s)	: J. Touch, T. Faber, W. Yue
	Filename	: draft-faber-time-wait-avoidance-00.txt
	Pages		: 14
	Date		: 11-Sep-97
	
   This document describes the problems associated with the accumulation
   of TCP TIME_WAIT states at a network server, such as a web server,
   and details two methods for avoiding that accumulation.  Servers that
   have many TCP connections in TIME_WAIT state experience performance
   degradation, and can collapse.  One solution is a TCP modification
   that causes clients to enter TIME_WAIT state rather than servers.
   The other is an HTTP modification that allows the client to close the
   transport connection, maintaining the TIME_WAIT state at the client.
   The goal of both approaches is ensure that TIME_WAIT states accumu-
   late at the less loaded endpoint.

   The document also presents initial performance data from reference
   implementations of these solutions, which suggest that the modifica-
   tions improve HTTP connection rates at the server by as much as 50%,
   and allow servers to operate at small transaction throughputs that
   they cannot sustain their default configuration.

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