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fun networking: tcp close

Recently we are working on a new feature is about filter packets by HTTP header for our router. This is the concept, we read the header by rules, rules are just some key/value pair. If key missing or value isn't matched, then we drop the packet.

When a connection end, we would remove this connection from allowing pass map.

Anyway, we found a bug is, we use FIN flag to say this packet is the end of the TCP connection, but we know a connection end is a:FIN -> b:ACK -> b:FIN -> a:ACK, a/b is client/server here. So except the first packet, following packets won't pass our router, then connection would never end until timeout, lol.

Date: 2018-11-30 Fri 00:00
Author: Lîm Tsú-thuàn