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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by smoppi on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:47PM (#29959828)
The TCP/IP stack is compiled for 64 sockets. If the socket table is full, it just drops all new SYN packets and does not answer to them.
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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by CodeWriter23 on Sunday January 16, 2022 @04:49PM (#29960524)
Just curious and totally not being critical, what was your thinking about dropping SYN vs responding with RST?
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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by smoppi on Sunday January 16, 2022 @04:52PM (#29960571)
I think the user will most probably keep pressing the F5/Refresh button anyway if the site is not working at the first try, so responding with a RST packet would just use more bandwidth and resources.
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