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From: "Randal S. Masutani" <randal@comtest.com>
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Subject: Re: Invalid ACKs in SYN-SENT and T/TCP
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On 1 Oct 98, at 9:32, Juan L. Freniche wrote:
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> 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
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