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Re: TCP's reaction to soft errors

To: Fernando Gont <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TCP's reaction to soft errors
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 15:13:25 -0700
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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:44:14 -0300
Fernando Gont <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The draft proposes to change TCP's reaction to soft errors so that 
> connections that are in the SYN-SENT or SYN-RECEIVED states are aborted 
> upon receipt of an ICMP error message that indicates a soft error.

I have verified that Linux behaves in a way compliant to this
proposal.  No changes are necessary.


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