Re: TCP RST...

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
14 Aug 1999 20:00:46 +0200

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In article <19990814143413.A10138@wuerli.h3.stusta.mhn.de>,
Wolfgang Walter <wolfgang.walter@stusta.mhn.de> writes:
> Hi,
> short question: what is the correct behaviour if a connection can not be
> acceptet because the backlog ist full. Linux seems just too drop the
> received syn-packet in this situation.

Except when syncookies are on.

> But one of the www-proxies of our provider seems to send a TCP RST when
> receiving to many simultanious connections, which is rather annoying with
> netscape. Is this behaviour allowed?

Not it is not. Just Microsoft has their own ideas about TCP.

-Andi

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