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TIME-WAIT Truncation

As already discussed in section 4.5 under certain conditions a socket in the TIME-WAIT state may be closed if the host uses T/TCP to connect. The conditions are straightforward, and the code can be seen in appendix A.2.7.4.



Mark Stacey
Thu Apr 30 12:26:11 IST 1998