Re: Sending ABORT upon receipt of INIT-ACK

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]> Wed, 16 May 2007 12:02:20 -0600

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Lincoln,

Because such an ABORT may be blocked by firewalls for security reasons (e.g.
port scanning), the 2960bis documents downgrades the MUST to SHOULD in all
cases and permits an implementation to not send the ABORT in the scenarios
described.

--brian

Haresign Lincoln wrote:                       (Wed, 16 May 2007 13:26:53)
> 
>    Emmanuel -
> 
> 
> 
>    If  we  send  an  ABORT  in  response  to an INIT ACK, the server will
>    receive an ABORT for which it has no TCB.  So it seems unneccessary to
>    state  this  as  a  MUST  requirement since the server can't really do
>    anything with the ABORT.
> 
> 
> 
>    Regards,
>    Lincoln

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Brian F. G. Bidulock
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