tcp_wput_proto: received T_ORDREL_REQ in bad state

[Alex Georgiev]

Does anyone know what this message means?

The nettl log contains a number of these. In fact, those are the only message in the log. I'm attaching a partial output from the netfmt command. As can see, all of these are produced by different processes, the processes are no longer active. A series of these messages get logged every few days, so I'm just waiting for my change to see if I can find the process(es) that cause them. The user with id 102 is an account used by a special healthcare application running on this server.

[Ron Kinner]

I don't know what OS you are running but for 11.0 there is a patch for something similar:

PHNE_23456 s700_800 11.00 cumulative ARPA Transport patch
...
( SR number: 8606124808 ; Defect: JAGac40200 )
T_ORDREL_REQ out of state error messages appear in
nettl.LOG file.
...

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/search.do?pageContextName=hpux%3A%3A%3A&admit=-1335382922+1074381844119+28353475

Ron

[Alex Georgiev]

Well, that's the best answer we have so far... I'm running HP-UX 11.11, btw. I should have mentioned that.

The machine did not have the patch. I'm not yet sure if that was THE problem or not. I'm hoping to find out soon, after the most recent "Cumulative ARPA Transport patch" patch has been installed.

For anyone that may run across this message later: patch PHNE_23456 has a critical warning associated with it and should not be installed. It has been superseded a few times, with the most recent and recomended patch being PHNE_26771. As of Jan 2004 it is still the most recent... Always check the patch database, of course!


My original question, however, was more about what does this message mean? Not so much about how do I get rid of it.

As much as I can find out, T_ORDREL_REQ is an "Orderly Release request" that the TCP stack sends (or receives?) to request that the connection be closed. So by the message is sounds like this release request is being sent/received at the wrong time... Anyone where who has written TCP stacks before, or who knows more details?

Thanks in advance!