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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html