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-rw-r--r--pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/rcv.go7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/rcv.go b/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/rcv.go
index bc920a03b..cfd43b5e3 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/rcv.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/transport/tcp/rcv.go
@@ -436,6 +436,13 @@ func (r *receiver) handleTimeWaitSegment(s *segment) (resetTimeWait bool, newSyn
// Just silently drop any RST packets in TIME_WAIT. We do not support
// TIME_WAIT assasination as a result we confirm w/ fix 1 as described
// in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1337#section-3.
+ //
+ // This behavior overrides RFC793 page 70 where we transition to CLOSED
+ // on receiving RST, which is also default Linux behavior.
+ // On Linux the RST can be ignored by setting sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_rfc1337.
+ //
+ // As we do not yet support PAWS, we are being conservative in ignoring
+ // RSTs by default.
if s.flagIsSet(header.TCPFlagRst) {
return false, false
}