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This document summarizes potential failure modes in TCP connections due to "old duplicate segments" arriving after a connection has closed. It identifies a hazard called "TIME-WAIT Assassination" where the TIME-WAIT state protecting a closed connection is prematurely terminated by an old duplicate segment, allowing sequence number overlaps that can cause connections to accept erroneous data, become desynchronized, or die. It provides examples of how each hazard could occur if a new connection is immediately

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