e server and client close the socket with FIN packet. But when the client/server close the socket with RST packet(using so_linger), the counter for this connection still exsit. The following patch can fix it which is based on linux-2.6.25.4 Signed-off-by: Dong Wei Acked-by: Jan Engelhardt Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller