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

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Message-Id: <20100926.153832.115943505.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:38:32 -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 00:34:48 +0200

> I don't see what is being violated nor what reliability has been
> compromised.

The TCP protcol's obligation to reliably deliver data between
two applications, that is what has been violated.

You don't have to like this, but you certainly must cope with it
in your applications :-)
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