From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Mike Black <mblack@csihq.com>
Cc: Heusden Folkert van <f.v.heusden@ftr.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 20:17:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010617201727.A1493@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03c701c0f5c8$e15f7e10$e1de11cc@csihq.com> <E15Az1U-0006wI-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15Az1U-0006wI-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from Alan Cox on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:12:48PM +0100
Hi!
> Specifically
> 1. If the receiver closes and there is unread data many TCP's forget
> to RST the sender to indicate that data was lost.
Do at least FreeBSD, Solaris and NT sent RST correctly?
> 2. There is a flaw in the TCP protocol itself that is extremely unlikely
> to bite people but can in theory cause wrong data in some unusual
> circumstances that Ian Heavans found and has yet to be fixed by
> the keepers of the protocol.
This is interesting; where are details?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-17 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-15 12:53 Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK Heusden, Folkert van
2001-06-15 18:27 ` Mike Black
2001-06-15 18:39 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-06-15 19:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-17 18:17 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-06-17 19:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-17 19:40 ` Dan Podeanu
[not found] ` <200106172113.f5HLDhJ377473@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
2001-06-17 22:09 ` Dan Podeanu
2001-06-17 22:35 ` dean gaudet
2001-06-18 11:50 ` Jan Hudec
2001-06-18 16:17 ` dean gaudet
2001-06-18 16:48 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-18 22:30 ` dean gaudet
2001-06-18 23:43 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-19 2:46 ` dean gaudet
2001-06-20 21:01 ` David Schwartz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-01 21:27 Nivedita Singhvi
2001-07-11 3:43 ` Robert Kleemann
[not found] <E15BiHy-0002xC-00@the-village.bc.nu.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-06-17 20:21 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106121720310.1152-100000@localhost.localdomain.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-06-13 8:48 ` Andi Kleen
2001-06-13 16:09 ` Robert Kleemann
2001-06-13 0:26 Robert Kleemann
2001-06-15 3:50 ` Robert Kleemann
2001-06-15 12:44 ` Mike Black
2001-06-15 18:29 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-15 23:10 ` Robert Kleemann
2001-06-16 11:55 ` Mike Black
2001-06-16 23:56 ` Robert Kleemann
2001-06-27 1:04 ` Robert Kleemann
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