Re: [2.1.117] patch - Handling of RST in SYN_RECV state

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
23 Aug 1998 02:46:35 +0200


In article <E0zALSj-0000HD-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
pjb1008@cam.ac.uk (Peter Benie) writes:

> I've noticed that Linux 2.1 ignores RST for listening TCP sockets in
> SYN_RECV. In the example below, hastur, which is listening on port 26,
> is sent a SYN by medusa. hastur keeps responding with SYN-ACK despite
> the RSTs from medusa. netstat shows that the socket remains in SYN_RECV.

[..] Thank you for the fix. I'll commit it to vger shortly. IPv6 had the
same problem.

-Andi

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