Hi--
On Jun 19, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Harti Brandt wrote:
When the TCP is in SYN-SENT state (the user has called connect())
and the peer answers with an almost-lamp test packet which has SYN,
FIN, ACK and data larger than the window, TCP ACKs a window full of
data, drops the rest, but processes the FIN - it goes into
CLOSE_WAIT. This looks wrong to me. When dropping the data that is
outside the window, it should also drop the FIN.
Clearly, you shouldn't process a FIN which happens outside of the
current window: "For sequence number purposes, the SYN is considered
to occur before the first actual data octet of the segment in which it
occurs, while the FIN is considered to occur after the last actual
data octet in a segment in which it occurs."
If the socket was in a synchronized state, RFC-793 pg 37 says:
"3. If the connection is in a synchronized state (ESTABLISHED,
FIN-WAIT-1, FIN-WAIT-2, CLOSE-WAIT, CLOSING, LAST-ACK, TIME-WAIT),
any unacceptable segment (out of window sequence number or
unacceptible acknowledgment number) must elicit only an empty
acknowledgment segment containing the current send-sequence number
and an acknowledgment indicating the next sequence number expected
to be received, and the connection remains in the same state."
...if it's before the connection is fully setup, ie, in SYN-SENT state
as you say, then the fact that the packet contains data which does not
fit in the window suggests it should be handled by the rules for half-
open connections:
"As a general rule, reset (RST) must be sent whenever a segment
arrives
which apparently is not intended for the current connection. A reset
must not be sent if it is not clear that this is the case."
See figure 12-- I think you should be sending a RST back....
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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