RE: [tcpm] TCP zero window timeout?

--- Caitlin Bestler <caitlinb@broadcom.com> wrote:

> MURALI BASHYAM wrote:
>  
> >> 
> > 
> > I think the crux of the issue here is that this is
> left to
> > the client side application control which means
> open game for hackers.
> > 
> > Murali
> 
> I think it is a given that a server application can
> terminate
> the connection to any client if the behaviour of
> that client
> means that the server no longer wishes to maintain
> the connection.
> 

The application is not aware of the client's behaviour
here and as far as he is concerned the data is out of
his control. 

> I am not aware of any RFC that would impair the
> ability of
> the server application to interact with the local
> TCP stack
> to achieve these results.

Are u suggesting that the application query TCP to
determine that the connection is stuck in persist
state and how much of the data has been sent or not
and so on? That sounds a little roundabout and
complicated...
> 
> Is there a specific RFC requirement that you believe
> impairs
> creation of local interfaces to achieve the results
> you desire?
> In general, if the application layer has the right
> to do something
> it has the right to delegate that authority to a
> lower layer on
> the local stack and doing so will contradict the
> wire protocol.

The application layer does not have enough information
to take the corrective actions here.

Murali
> 
> 
> 
> 

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