On 2001-01-26T06:39:36,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said:
> The RST frame does not indicate why it happened, so you may not intuit
> the reason, "retry" the connection, or anything else like that. It
> means connection failed, and we must return error from connect().
>
> Nothing else is acceptable.
That would mean that the people worried about this should write a
wrapper-library for the connect() call, and maybe add a no_ecn flag to a
socket, and leave the kernel alone.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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