[e2e] TCP improved closing strategies?

William Allen Simpson william.allen.simpson at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 07:11:10 PDT 2009


Fernando Gont wrote:
> Well, you do have "improved *opening* strategies" :-). See page 93 of:
> http://www.gont.com.ar/papers/tn-03-09-security-assessment-TCP.pdf
> 
> Timestamps can be used to safely recycle the TIME-WAIT state (provided
> that timestamps are monotonically-increasing across connections.)
> 
Wonderful!  A good survey.  Nice to have it all in one place.


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