Re: [patch] workaround for solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6 FIN bug (ID 4083814)

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 19:35:41 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Philip Gladstone wrote:

>The fix was to make sure that we did *not* retransmit the data, but
>*do* retransmit the FIN. When Solaris receives the FIN without data
>it handles it correctly.

I thought about this way to workaround the Solaris bug infact. Maybe I
missed some bit of TCPRFC, but I thought it was not possible because once
Solairs didn't seen the FIN flag, it just interpreted the last octect of
the FIN-full-of-data packet as data while it was a virtual octect. Am I
wrong here?

Andrea Arcangeli

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