[vox-tech] repeating TCP Retransmission normal?

[Brian Lavender]

I have a tcp client that connects to a server through a load balancer.
After 9 minutes if the connection has sat idle and then the client
decides to send traffic to the server, the load balancer responds with
nothing. The client repetitively sends a tcp_retransmission. The load
balancer seems to just shut the connection down and the client just
keeps trying to reconnect.

Should the load balancer reply with something? a RST or something?

When I look at the host with the client connection, it appears that
the connection is still open, but that 81 bytes are stuck in the
SEND-Q.

Networking experts, I need your help!

brian
-- 
Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
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