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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: MacTCP, abort an asynchronous operation, how?
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Date: 18 Mar 91 00:59:30 GMT
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>< Is it possible to abort an asynchronous operation in MacTCP?
>< 
>Did you try TCPAbort?
>If not, TCPRelease definitely should work.

You'd best be darn sure you won't be getting any more packets before
calling TCPRelease on a MacTCP connection.  MacTCP cannot handle
packets that arrive for a connection it no longer has.  It seems
to successfully reset the connection, but then crashes the mac
horribly, at least on several flavors of Ethernet cards.
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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