@techreport{faber-time-wait-avoidance-00,
    number =    {draft-faber-time-wait-avoidance-00},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-faber-time-wait-avoidance/00/},
    author =    {Dr. Joseph D. Touch and Ted Faber and Wei Yue},
    title =     {{Avoiding the TCP TIME\_WAIT state at Busy Servers}},
    pagetotal = 14,
    year =      1997,
    month =     sep,
    day =       11,
    abstract =  {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.},
}