问题描述：
多隆同学在做网络框架的时候，发现一条tcp链接在close的时候，对端会收到econnrest,而不是正常的fin包. 通过抓包发现close系统调用的时候，我端发出rst报文, 而不是正常的fin。这个问题比较有意思，我们来演示下：
$ erl
Erlang R14B03 (erts-5.8.4) [64-bit] [smp:16:16] [rq:16] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
Eshell V5.8.4 (abort with ^G)
1> {ok,Sock} = gen_tcp:connect("baidu.com", 80, [{active,false}]).
{ok,#Port<0.582>}
2> gen_tcp:send(Sock, "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n").
ok
3> gen_tcp:close(Sock).
ok
我们往baidu的首页发了个http请求，百度会给我们回应报文的,我们send完立即调用close.
然后我们在另外一个终端开tcpdump抓包确认：
$ sudo tcpdump port 80 -i bond0
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on bond0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
17:22:38.246507 IP my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.19500 > 220.181.111.86.http: S 2228211568:2228211568(0) win 5840
17:22:38.284602 IP 220.181.111.86.http > my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.19500: S 3250338304:3250338304(0) ack 2228211569 win 8190
17:22:38.284624 IP my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.19500 > 220.181.111.86.http: . ack 1 win 5840
17:22:52.748468 IP my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.19500 > 220.181.111.86.http: P 1:19(18) ack 1 win 5840
17:22:52.786855 IP 220.181.111.86.http > my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.19500: . ack 19 win 5840
17:22:52.787194 IP 220.181.111.86.http > my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.19500: P 1:179(178) ack 19 win 5840
17:22:52.787203 IP my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.19500 > 220.181.111.86.http: . ack 179 win 6432
17:22:52.787209 IP 220.181.111.86.http > my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.19500: P 179:486(307) ack 19 win 5840
17:22:52.787214 IP my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.19500 > 220.181.111.86.http: . ack 486 win 7504
17:23:01.564358 IP my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.19500 > 220.181.111.86.http: R 19:19(0) ack 486 win 7504
...
我们可以清楚的看到 R 19:19(0) ack 486 win 7504,发了个rst包，通过strace系统调用也确认erlang确实调用了close系统调用。
那为什么呢？，tcp协议栈专家回答了这个问题：
在net/ipv4/tcp.c:1900附近
...
/* As outlined in RFC 2525, section 2.17, we send a RST here because
* data was lost. To witness the awful effects of the old behavior of
* always doing a FIN, run an older 2.1.x kernel or 2.0.x, start a bulk
* GET in an FTP client, suspend the process, wait for the client to
* advertise a zero window, then kill -9 the FTP client, wheee...
* Note: timeout is always zero in such a case.
*/
if (data_was_unread) {
/* Unread data was tossed, zap the connection. */
NET_INC_STATS_USER(sock_net(sk), LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTONCLOSE);
tcp_set_state(sk, TCP_CLOSE);
tcp_send_active_reset(sk, sk->sk_allocation);
..
代码里面写的很清楚，如果你的接收缓冲去还有数据，协议栈就会发rst代替fin.
我们再来验证一下：
$ erl
Erlang R14B03 (erts-5.8.4) [64-bit] [smp:16:16] [rq:16] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
Eshell V5.8.4 (abort with ^G)
1> {ok,Sock} = gen_tcp:connect("baidu.com", 80, [{active,false}]).
{ok,#Port<0.582>}
2> gen_tcp:send(Sock, "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n").
ok
3> gen_tcp:recv(Sock,0).
{ok,"HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request\r\nDate: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:24:37 GMT\r\nServer: Apache\r\nConnection: Keep-Alive\r\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked\r\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n\r\n127\r\n\n\n\n\n
\nclient sent HTTP/1.1 request without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): /
\n\n\r\n0\r\n\r\n"}
4> gen_tcp:close(Sock).
ok
5>
这次我们把接收缓冲区里的东西拉干净了。
再看下tcpdump：
...
17:36:07.236627 IP my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.9405 > 123.125.114.144.http: S 3086473299:3086473299(0) win 5840
17:36:07.274661 IP 123.125.114.144.http > my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.9405: S 738551248:738551248(0) ack 3086473300 win 8190
17:36:07.274685 IP my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.9405 > 123.125.114.144.http: . ack 1 win 5840
17:36:10.295795 IP my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.9405 > 123.125.114.144.http: P 1:19(18) ack 1 win 5840
17:36:10.334280 IP 123.125.114.144.http > my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.9405: . ack 19 win 5840
17:36:10.334547 IP 123.125.114.144.http > my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.9405: P 1:179(178) ack 19 win 5840
17:36:10.334554 IP my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.9405 > 123.125.114.144.http: . ack 179 win 6432
17:36:10.334563 IP 123.125.114.144.http > my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.9405: P 179:486(307) ack 19 win 5840
17:36:10.334566 IP my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.9405 > 123.125.114.144.http: . ack 486 win 7504
17:36:19.671374 IP my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.9405 > 123.125.114.144.http: F 19:19(0) ack 486 win 7504
17:36:19.709619 IP 123.125.114.144.http > my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.9405: . ack 20 win 5840
17:36:19.709643 IP 123.125.114.144.http > my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.9405: F 486:486(0) ack 20 win 5840
17:36:19.709652 IP my031089.sqa.cm4.tbsite.net.9405 > 123.125.114.144.http: . ack 487 win 7504
...
这次是发fin包了。
多隆同学再进一步，找出来之前squid client代码中不能理解的一句话：
client_side.c
...
/* prevent those nasty RST packets */
{
char buf[SQUID_TCP_SO_RCVBUF];
while (FD_READ_METHOD(fd, buf, SQUID_TCP_SO_RCVBUF) > 0);
}
...
总算明白了这句话的意思了！
小结：认真学习协议栈太重要了。
玩得开心！