From: sairam MP <sai438@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T17:52:36+09:00
Subject: Re: How to Distinguish between a Reset packet and a Normal o

Gary Wright wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2007, at 12:29 AM, sairam MP wrote:
> 
>> How to Distinguish between reset packet and a normal packet?? Here  
>> I am
>> using TCPSocket API where in Iam Using recvfrom().
> 
> You can't. If you are using a TCP socket you don't know where
> any packet boundaries are located.  TCP only presents a byte
> stream to the application.
> 
> It sounds like you are describing a situation where data has been
> arriving and you are reading it and then for some reason the remote
> system decides to abort the TCP connection by sending a TCP RST
> packet.
> 
> On your end, you'll be able to read all the queued data normally
> and then, when you've consumed all the pending data, the next time
> you try to read from the socket, an exception will be raised to let
> you know that the underlying TCP session has gone away (rather than
> being closed cleanly).
> 
> 
> Gary Wright

I think its possible,while receiving some data,if the length of data 
received is zero in a blocked receive function then the connection is 
said to be reset by peer.

Sairam

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