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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: fix TCP roundtrip time update code
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 00:51:45 -0700 (PDT)
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   From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
   Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 23:19:31 -0700
   
   Yes, the "connection hangs/disappearances" where triggered by
   TCPAbortOnTimeout;

This is correct.

And it is the reason the connection dies silently.  Because
such write timeouts invoke tcp_done() which closes the connection
off silently.  This is correct behavior (sans the RTT bug David fixed
of course :)) because a host which hasn't responded at all from
so many repeated retransmission attempts isn't likely to get any
reset we send either :)