Subject: md5 TCP resets

From: "Tsillas, Jim" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:10:12 -0500

rfc 2385 states that resets are ignored even when
they originate due to a stale connection. If the
connection is stale and the md5 digest can still be
built, shouldn't the stale end issue the reset with
an md5 digest so that the opposite end can receive
the reset? Also, does it make sense to send resets
with no digest (for the case where there is no listener)
when the received packet contained a digest? It seems
that would simply be a waste.

-Jim.