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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: Gilbert Gong <ggong@cal.alumni.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: strange tcp behavior?
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On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Gilbert Gong wrote:

> If I am not mistaken, this should not happen..
> I'm also relatively certain the TIME_WAIT is not from a previously closed
> connection..
>
> Any ideas what might cause this, or hints on how I can further investigate
> this?
> Gilbert

That's a known bug with our current tcp sequence number generation scheme.
It may be some time before a new scheme is put in place, so you'll have to
live with it for a while.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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