Hi,
I came across the following behavior (sorry, no tcpdump but this should
be easy to reproduce with the right tools):
hostA hostB
--------FIN----------->
<-----data+FIN---------
--------ACK-------X (packet lost)
<-----data+FIN--------- (retransmit)
<-----data+FIN--------- (retransmit)
<-----data+FIN--------- (retransmit)
....
<-----data+FIN--------- (retransmit)
--------RST----------->
HostA is running Linux 2.4.17-pre2. HostB is running Symbian OS. All the
sequence numbers pan out.
Either LAST-ACK is completely broken or Linux just cannot handle a
FIN-ACK that is piggybacked on a data segment, when received in LAST-ACK
state. It should be acked as an out-of-window segment, as usual.
Finally, the LAST-ACK state times out and Linux responds to the FIN
segment with an RST.
Cheers,
MikaL
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