Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:52:17 +0100 From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> To: dg@root.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcp bug on reeBSD Message-ID: <19981216175217.A6979@gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <199812161500.HAA09803@root.com>; from David Greenman on Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 07:00:57AM -0800 References: <19981216140244.A5966@gvr.org> <199812161500.HAA09803@root.com>
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> > Well, the above shows that the port involved is the FTP control channel, > which gets closed at the end of the session. I think the RST was in response > to your 6 byte PUSHed packet, not your FIN packet. Since the application on > wcarchive already closed it's end of the connection (as evidenced by the > FIN that it sent), there is no longer a recipient of any data that might be > sent to it. It seems to me that the appropriate response in a situation like > this would be to send an RST in response to that data. > Yes, a half-close is a valid mechanism, but you can only send to the side > that hasn't closed yet. Ah..how stupid ;-() I indeed mixed up the server/client here. I;ll look later today exactly what my application (being mirror) wanted to send to the other side because that should not have happened at all. -Guido To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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