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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: TCP's reaction to soft errors
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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:44:14 -0300
Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> 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.