Re: ICMP dest-unreach in SYN_* states of TCP

[Jamie Lokier]

Taral wrote:
> > I assumed that's you meant by:
> > 
> > > Does anyone know why connections aren't aborted when ICMP dest
> > > unreachables are received while in the SYN_* states? Esp. if they
> > > contain the TCP packet which was sent (inc. seq num)
> > 
> > What did you really mean?
> 
> I was wrong, it seems. ICMP is checked for in tcp_ipv4.c in all cases.

Well the point about sending RSTs from the firewall still holds, since
there are _other_ hosts that don't abort the connection.

-- Jamie

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