netdev - Re: RFC Hanging clean-up of a namespace

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Message-ID: <20120119221611.GC12249@hell>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:16:12 +0100
From:	Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net>
To:	David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.net>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	hans.schillstrom@...csson.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC Hanging clean-up of a namespace

* David Lamparter | 2012-01-19 22:47:18 [+0100]:

>I may have made that argument hidden behind a joke, but please refer to
>the development of RFC 793's bootup "quiet time". The reason no one
>sticks to this quiet time is that TCP timestamps have obsoleted it by
>providing a better frame of reference. Refer to RFC 1323 Appendix B
>"DUPLICATES FROM EARLIER CONNECTION INCARNATIONS".

Appendix B of RFC 1323 handles "Connection Incarnations", TIME_WAIT handles a
wrong stack behavior and avoid a RST packet instead of a final ACK/FIN for a
retransmission - two independent mechanisms.


Hagen

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