> imho you are thinking too hard.  plan9 behavior doesn't have
> to be "intuitively" correct; it has to match what the rfc
> says.  your first message said "icmp unreachable messages do
> not terminate the connection". this is not necessarily a bug

no.  that's not what i said.  i said, icmp unreachable messages
*sometimes* terminate the connection.  and there's no excuse
for that unreliablity.  the packet was not dropped by the nic.

this discussion would be shorter if you'd read what i wrote.

- erik

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