
SE Radio 573: Varun Singh on Evolution of Internet Protocols
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How to Block a TCP Connection
TCP essentially was one of those things that used to guarantee it was a guaranteed form of communication, right? So you could basically if you send a piece of data, it's guaranteed to reach there and it was reached there in a particular sequence. And I think that's kind of one of the weaknesses also, right? That's one of the reasons why there is this ahead of line blocking. But what was this thing about blocking, right? so why was it so easy to block a TCP connection? Was it something?
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