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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, tlambert@primenet.com
Subject: Re: FreeBSD TCP stack and RST processing [subj changed]
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>I think the "ignore H_ACK for the compare" suggestion is best.

No.  Validating the ACK is a required part of RST processing in SYN_SENT
state (but not in SYN_RECEIVED).

  Bill