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Re: [Idr] TCP & BGP: Some don't send terminate BGP when holdtimer expired, because TCP recv window is 0

Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> Sat, 12 December 2020 15:32 UTC

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From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
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Subject: Re: [Idr] TCP & BGP: Some don't send terminate BGP when holdtimer expired, because TCP recv window is 0
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> On Dec 12, 2020, at 9:23 AM, Christoph Loibl <c@tix.at> wrote:
> 
> drop of TCP connection, … and no way to recover from that.

Some vendors have really bad TCP stacks. I had one that would ack the wrong number of bytes and without setting the keep alive on the socket would block forever as it never knew it went away. 

Some have also not implemented window scaling or other modern rfcs. 

Then when you find the bugs they are concerned about the fix due to how core TCP is for the device. 

This isn't unique to any vendor but those with multiple flavors and OS it's quite interesting to say the least. 

- Jared

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