netdev - Re: TCP: orphans broken by RFC 2525 #2.17

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Date:	Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:12:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	w@....eu
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP: orphans broken by RFC 2525 #2.17

From: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:25:30 +0200

> Agreed. But that's not a reason for killing outgoing data that is
> being sent when there are some data left in the rcv buffer.

What alternative notification to the peer do you suggest other than a
reset, then?  TCP gives us no other.

That's the thing, data integrity is full duplex, thus once it has been
compromised in one direction everything currently in flight must be
zapped.
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