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Date:      Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:56:00 -1000
From:      "Randal S. Masutani" <randal@comtest.com>
To:        "Juan L. Freniche" <jlfreniche@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Invalid ACKs in SYN-SENT and T/TCP
Message-ID:  <199810011841.IAA11827@oldyeller.comtest.com>
In-Reply-To: <3613302B.449D@acm.org>

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On 1 Oct 98, at 9:32, Juan L. Freniche wrote:

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> My question is: is this behaviour what it was intended? The comment in
> the code covers one case, but aborting connections and loosing its RST
> is not so unlikely. Should A come back to RFC 793?

I have seen this exact behavior myself and I often wondered why it didn't 
RST the connection?   I always had to kill the open connection on the 
other computer before I could continue.

I haven't reviewed the RFCs, so unfortunately I don't have any answers.

Randal Masutani


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