RFC 3360: Inappropriate TCP Resets Considered Harmful
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document is being written because there are a number of firewalls in the Internet that inappropriately reset a TCP connection upon receiving certain TCP SYN packets, in particular, packets with flags set in the Reserved field of the TCP header. In this document we argue that this practice is not conformant with TCP standards, and is an inappropriate overloading of the semantics of the TCP reset. We also consider the longer-term consequences of this and similar actions as obstacles to the evolution of the Internet infrastructure.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC3360
- Published
- August 2002
- Authors
- S. Floyd
- Status
- BEST CURRENT PRACTICE
- Stream
- Legacy
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 19
- Also known as
- BCP60
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