Re: [tcpm] 793bis: purpose of RST w/ data

"touch@strayalpha.com" <touch@strayalpha.com> Thu, 06 January 2022 15:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] 793bis: purpose of RST w/ data
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FWIW, some middleboxes that use RSTs to kill connections place reference IDs in the payload for tracing, e.g., see here:
https://serverfault.com/questions/746570/rst-ack-with-reset-cause <https://serverfault.com/questions/746570/rst-ack-with-reset-cause>
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13223 <https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13223>

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> On Jan 5, 2022, at 11:49 PM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> 
> We call it “diagnostic payload” in RFC 7252.
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7252#section-5.5.2
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 
> 
>> On 2022-01-06, at 08:29, mohamed.boucadair@orange.com wrote:
>> 
>> It makes sense to include the example but without the “ASCII text” thing.  
>> 
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