RE: TCP wierdness (2.2.3)

Giuliano Procida (Giuliano.Procida@Madge.com)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:50:26 +0100


Alan Cox wrote:

> RFC793 is quite clear on it. An ACK that acks all but the FIN requires
> you retransmit the FIN assuming it lost. A FIN takes sequence space.
> The FIN is a -retransmit- so the repeat FIN is sent with the same
> sequence before and can optionally contain previously sent data too.

I am glad to hear it! Linux didn't retransmit the FIN, it just ACKed.

Thanks for the reply.
Giuliano.

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