Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:08:30 +0100 From: Andras Olah <olah@cs.utwente.nl> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: Faried Nawaz <fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP Message-ID: <82.826790910@curie.cs.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:08:37 PST." <199603132008.MAA04472@precipice.shockwave.com>
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On Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:08:37 PST, Paul Traina wrote:
> I'd give them the following summary:
[ nice bug report deleted ]
I'd like to thank Paul for the nice bug report template. Here are
some minor clarifications:
RFC-794 --> RFC793 (!!)
Garret --> Garrett
Andreas --> Andras
And for further support of our case, here's the relevant paragraph
of RFC-793 clearly stating that a TCP implementation must buffer
data on SYN segments until the connection becomes open:
- begin quote -
September 1981
Transmission Control Protocol
Functional Specification
[ ... ]
Several examples of connection initiation follow. Although these
examples do not show connection synchronization using data-carrying
segments, this is perfectly legitimate, so long as the receiving TCP
doesn't deliver the data to the user until it is clear the data is
valid (i.e., the data must be buffered at the receiver until the
connection reaches the ESTABLISHED state). The three-way handshake
reduces the possibility of false connections. It is the
[Page 30]
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Andras
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