Just a wild theory: Could the server be running an agressive defense
against SYN flood attacks, causing it to drop the half-open connection
during the 4 seconds roundtrip time it takes for the final ack to get
there?
-=] Ford [=-
"But everybody wants a rock (In Real Life: Mike Ditto)
to wind a piece of string around." ford@omnicron.com
- They Might be Giants, http://www.omnicron.com/~ford/ford.html
"We want a rock"
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