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September 30, 2009  1:06 PM

Where do TCP resets come from?



Posted by: Troy Tate
application performance, network analysis, network management, network monitoring, network performance, packet capture, performance analysis, protocol analysis, tcp, udp

I recently came across an excellent article on the topic of TCP resets. TCP is a connection-oriented protocol as opposed to the connectionless nature of UDP. So, if there are TCP resets on your network, this is not a bad thing and is just inherent in the protocol. Without TCP resets, a host could...

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