3 Oct
1996
3 Oct
'96
5:58 p.m.
Tim, unfortunately ICMP UNREACHABLE can be sent some intermediate router during routing flip process. For this reason some customer prefer cut off this sort of ICMP - it would break running TCP connection.
Understood, however the conditions to terminate the connection is not just as simple as UNREACHABLE. A few possible conditions: (1) UNREACHABLE && TCP_SYN_STATE (2) UNREACHABLE && TCP_SYN_STATE && sk->time_in_state VR, Tim