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Date:      Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:57:07 -0500
From:      "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
To:        George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TCP connection setup question... 
Message-ID:  <200001251657.LAA70043@whizzo.transsys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:37:57 PST." <200001250637.WAA11550@jchurch.meer.net> 
References:  <200001250637.WAA11550@jchurch.meer.net> 

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> Hi Folks,
> 
> Can anyone tell me why a recieving TCP does not send an ICMP Port Unreachable
> error if there is no matching PCB for the packet that is received?

Probably because the stack must send a TCP reset segment anyway.  The
ICMP port unreachable would probably be redundant.

louie



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