Re: Occasional weird TCP behavior

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

marcotte%panix.com@localhost (Brian Marcotte) writes:

>Looking at the packets on a failed connection shows this:

>  client      server
>  ------      --------
>  SYN
>              SYN,ACK
>  RST

Can you dump the complete headers ?

There are several conditions where a RST is returned.  E.g. when
the sequence number doesn't match ours, or if the user process is
already gone (i.e. ssh would have exited/crashed before the connection
was established).