[tcpm] TCP Reassembly Timer

"Vishal Study" <vishal.study@gmail.com> Wed, 25 April 2007 17:18 UTC

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From: Vishal Study <vishal.study@gmail.com>
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Hi:

Is there an RFC/draft that talks about TCP Reassembly timer?

Scenario:
Host begins to receive out of order pkts and enqueues them in its
RX_Q. If there are lot of sessions that are stuck in such state (with
out of order pkts), the system can go down on resources (memory).

Does any standard/RFC talk about what should be the expected behavior?

I know there are implementations that have a Reassembly timer and they
either drop the session or (atleast) drop out of order pkts when the
Reassembly timer kicks off.

Any pointers...

Thanks in advance,
Vishal.

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