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Re: question about TCPAgent reset()
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Guo, Liang wrote:
> > > Surely the sequence number for that ack packet should (in most cases)
> > > be beyond the right window of the new $stcp session, so $stcp should
> > ^^ edge of the
> >
> > there. that makes more sense.
[suggested ack-before-right-edge-of-window check]
> But, what if this new TCP session is only going to send 1 packet? (And
> the old session happens to end up with retransmitting a duplicate
> ACK for packet number 0). I think this problem will still exists or
> am I making a mistake here?
Hence 'most cases'.
The worrying thing to me is that I was assuming that the TCPs were
tracking per-flow state anyway, and that unique flow-ids were assigned
as a matter of course...
L.
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