possible while maintaining compatibility with the widest range of TCP stacks.
The algorithm is as follows:
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For connections in the ESTABLISHED state, only resets with
sequence numbers exactly matching last_ack_sent will cause a reset,
all other segments will be silently dropped.
For connections in all other states, a reset anywhere in the window
will cause the connection to be reset. All other segments will be
silently dropped.
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The necessity of accepting all in-window resets was discovered
by jayanth and jlemon, both of whom have seen TCP stacks that
will respond to FIN-ACK packets with resets not meeting the
strict last_ack_sent check.
Idea by: Darren Reed
Reviewed by: truckman, jlemon, others(?)
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