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

From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:16:12 +0100

* 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