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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: TCP: orphans broken by RFC 2525 #2.17
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:10:39 -0700 (PDT)
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TCP is a reliable transport.

If you choose to close before the data from the peer has been fully
received, you've subverted the reliability of the data transport.

Reset is the only reasonable action in this situation.