From owner-freebsd-net Thu Oct 1 11:53:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11558 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:53:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oldyeller.comtest.com (comtest.hits.net [206.127.244.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11530 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:52:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randal@comtest.com) Received: from graphics.comtest.com (graphics.comtest.com [206.127.245.194]) by oldyeller.comtest.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA11827; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:41:18 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from randal@comtest.com) Message-Id: <199810011841.IAA11827@oldyeller.comtest.com> From: "Randal S. Masutani" Organization: ComTest Technologies, Inc. To: "Juan L. Freniche" Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:56:00 -1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Invalid ACKs in SYN-SENT and T/TCP Reply-to: randal@comtest.com CC: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <3613302B.449D@acm.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1 Oct 98, at 9:32, Juan L. Freniche wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ComTest Technologies, Inc. 3049 Ualena St., Suite 1005 Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message