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Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:04:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shanwei88@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: avoid tcp loop connection on lo device

From: Shan Wei <shanwei88@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:12:34 +0800

> Tcp supports simultaneous Connection, but we meat odd phenomenon
> that tcp client can receive what send by itself. tcp client and tcp
> server communicate through loop device. tcp server selects port
> 40000 to listen which is in local port range. But after tcp server
> program is killed, tcp client still can connect successfully.

This is expected behavior and we're not special casing this after
it being this way for 20+ years.
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