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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] net: tcp: move to timewait when receiving data
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:32:34 +0100
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Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 16:54 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> 
> > Still, the RST packet can be dropped along the way. So the teardown of
> > the socket on the other side might not happen.
> 
> This is why it is better to send RST for every incoming in-excess packet

I'm convinced and marked patch as rejected in patchwork.

Thanks Eric!