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by ZiiS 1885 days ago
I think the argument is if _your_ keep-alives are held up then currently you wait on _them_ terminating the session. If they are malicious or just not working well they may not do this.
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0xEFF 1885 days ago
You can see the window size is zero though, so I think GP is suggesting sending a TCP reset or something similar.

Maybe this isn’t a good option because it would have too many undesirable side effects?

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