On Fri, August 3, 2007 12:56, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:21:46PM +0100, Simon Arlott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
> wrote:
>> Since the connection is considered closed, couldn't another socket re-use it?
>>
>> Socket A: Recv data (unread)
>> Socket A: Recv RST
>> Socket B: Reuses connection (same IPs/ports)
>> Socket A: Close
>>
>> Wouldn't that disrupt socket B's use of the connection?
>
> Then it will drop our data, since there were no appropriate handhsake.

Couldn't the sequence numbers be close enough to make the RST valid?

-- 
Simon Arlott
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