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SubjectRe: question about linux tcp request queue handling
Nivedita Singhvi writes:

>
> When you set a the backlog to 1 in the listen call, what is
> being capped is the accept queue. So I would expect your
> server to allow only one of those requests in the accept
> queue, and the kernel will drop the other two requests.
>

What you get when you set backlog to one is operating system dependent.
Tracing the flows with tcpdump, I get two clean handshakes so presumeably,
for linux, one means two. The third connection request *isn't* dropped;
according to netstat, it's placed in the syn_recd state. I thought
berkeley-derived implementations followed the rule that if there is no room
on the backlog queue for the new connection, tcp ignored the the received
syn.

>
> Actually, details, but we also apply some other conditions
> before we actually drop the connection request - we try not to be
> so harsh if the syn queue is still fairly empty..
>

Irrespective of whatever conditions linux applies, how can the connection
enter the syn_recd state if the backlog limit would be exceeded? What's the
client supposed to do with the syn/ack from the server? What's the server
supposed to do with the ack it get's back from the client?


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