Re: [lwip-devel] SYN-SENT state does not accept SYN only segment

[narke]

On 15 March 2012 04:53, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> narke wrote:
>>
>> I found in lwIP,  when an active open pcb in its SYN-SENT state and
>> received an segment sent from peer which has SYN flag but w/o ACK
>> flag,  the pcb just ignore the segment.  However, in RFC 793, it is
>> required to accept the SYN only segment in SYN-SENT state and switch
>> to SYN-RCVD state.
>>
>> Can anyone please confirm this?  It's a bug or a dedicated design?
>
>
> Well spotted, I think your observations are correct! I don't think it's a
> dedicated design, although I've never seen a stack behaving like that.
> Therefore I'd regard this as low prio (not targeting 1.4.1). Would you mind
> filing a bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>

Hi, Simon

Done.  Newly committed bug is #35845

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narke
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