Can an app crash from a single TCP packet lost in transmission?

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jul 17, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Peter Much wrote:
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> One other thing did happen between 03:51 and 03:52 - the DSL
> internet connection did disconnect/reconnect and obtained a new
> IP adress. Afterwards, a script does flush and reload an ipfw table()
> with the new local adresses - and during this process one(!) packet
> of the database session was dropped.

Well, there you go: having your IP change is certainly going to break  
existing network connections; I don't believe there is anything which  
is going to move the existing connection state in a NAT translation  
layer or whatever over to the new IP.  Presumably you can obtain a  
static IP and avoid such issues.

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-Chuck