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AGENTS.md documents build/test commands, the crate architecture and the agent skill configuration (local markdown issue tracker under .scratch/, default triage labels, single-context domain docs). CLAUDE.md imports it. docs/coding-style.md records the conventions used throughout the crate (type families and method naming, unsafe/SAFETY rules, error types, documentation, tests and commit structure) so contributors and reviews have a written standard to check against. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CONTEXT.md defines the vocabulary used by the upcoming tcp_reassembly module (connection vs. stream, hole vs. gap, implied ACK, resync, ...). ADR-0001 records why streams use contiguous pull buffers, ADR-0002 why holes are given up based on inferred receiver state. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Start the std-gated tcp_reassembly module with its value types: TcpConnectionKey sorts the two endpoints so that both directions of a connection get the same key, TcpConnectionId numbers connections, TcpRole names initiator and responder, and TcpReassemblyConfig holds the limits and inference settings with their defaults. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add TcpReassemblyPool::process_segment. A SYN starts a connection with the next connection id and makes its sender the initiator; segments of unknown connections are ignored with NoConnection. Both directions are grouped under one TcpConnection, which tracks first-seen and last-seen timestamps and exposes one TcpStream per role. A stream starts at ISN + 1 (so TCP Fast Open data in the SYN is at offset 0) and maps sequence numbers to 64-bit offsets with serial arithmetic, so offsets keep growing across 2^32 wrap-arounds. Bytes following the received ones are appended to one contiguous buffer that users read with read_received() and consume(); retransmitted bytes are skipped. Data behind missing bytes and data of streams whose SYN was not seen are not stored yet. The window scale option of SYNs is parsed and stored for the receiver window tracking. Tests drive the pool through a test-only ConnectionScript and compare it in a proptest against a simple reference model that works on the true stream offsets. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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TcpStreamEnd tells why no more bytes can be read from a stream, TcpConnectionEnd why a connection ended, and TcpStreamStatus holds the counters that describe a stream's quality. Each starts with what closing a connection by FIN needs: the Fin and Finished ends and the out-of-window segment counter. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the serial-arithmetic mapping out of add_data into an offset() helper that returns signed offsets relative to the received bytes, so the FIN and ACK handling can map their sequence numbers the same way. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…separately Test-only restructuring for the FIN and ACK handling that follows. ConnectionScript now builds a whole TestSegment in segment() and records it in push(), so steps can adjust a segment before it is pushed. The reference model keeps the state of each stream in a ModelStream instead of parallel arrays indexed by role. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first FIN of a stream sets its FIN offset; later FINs at other offsets are ignored, and so is a FIN that lies before bytes that were already received, since a real sender never sends data past its FIN. Bytes after the FIN are never stored and their segments are counted in the new status() as out-of-window segments. A stream is finished once all bytes up to its FIN were received, and reading it returns End(Fin) once they were all read. is_complete() follows is_finished() for now, because every stream is clean and has an observed start so far. The connection script gets FIN steps, and the reference model and its proptest are extended with FINs in both orders, FINs carrying data and late segments around the FIN. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ACK numbers now update the seen ACK of the stream they acknowledge. Once both streams are finished and both FINs are ACKed, the connection ends as Finished and the pool hands it over as an owned value in the new TcpProcessed::ended field, so its remaining bytes can still be read. If the last ACK is missing, the connection stays open. The pool keeps a tombstone in place of the ended connection: a TcpConnection with the same key, id and timestamps but without buffers. It absorbs late segments, which are ignored with the new TcpIgnoreReason::AfterEnd instead of starting a new connection. The connection script can now send simultaneous FINs and records the ACKed offset of each segment, which the reference model uses to decide when the connection is finished. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add TcpReassemblyPool::recycle, which takes back an ended connection and keeps the emptied buffers of its streams in a free list. New connections take their buffers from it before allocating new ones. The free list has no limits yet. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The reference model now keeps the read offset of each stream itself, and two parts of its proptest move into helpers: the loop that feeds segments to the pool and checks both streams after each one, and the code that cuts both streams into interleaved segments. The next proptests reuse them with reordered segments. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sequence numbers are now mapped relative to the highest offset instead of the end of the contiguous received bytes, and bytes behind missing bytes are stored instead of dropped. The missing ranges are holes: reading stops at the first one and continues once a retransmission fills it. The new holes() lists them, and highest_offset() returns the offset after the furthest byte the sender is known to have sent. A FIN behind missing bytes moves the highest offset to it, so the bytes before it become a hole, and the payload of such a FIN segment is now kept. A stream is finished once its FIN was seen and no holes are left. A FIN before the highest offset is still ignored, even if bytes before it are missing. The reference model tracks holes and the highest offset, and a new proptest feeds the pool segments that are reordered within a bounded distance, duplicated, and retransmitted with different cuts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A retransmission whose bytes differ from the bytes received first at the same positions now increments the new conflicting_retransmissions counter in TcpStreamStatus, once per segment. The bytes received first are still the ones that are kept and delivered. Bytes in holes are not compared, and neither are bytes that were already consumed, because they are no longer buffered. The new is_clean() is false once a retransmission conflicted, and is_complete() now also requires a clean stream. The reference model counts conflicts too, the reordering proptest corrupts some of its retransmissions, and a new proptest checks the counter against the number of corrupted segments. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add TcpStream::read_acked, which works like read_received but stops at the new acked_offset(): the offset up to which the receiver ACKed the stream. It never lies after the highest offset, so the ACK of a FIN ACKs all bytes but nothing after them. The reference model checks both reads and the ACKed offset after every segment, and consumes after either read. A new proptest adds pure ACKs of random offsets at random positions and checks that they don't change the received bytes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each stream now tracks the receive window that its receiver advertised in its last segment. The window is scaled by the receiver's window scale (RFC 7323) only if both SYNs were seen and both had the option; shifts above 14 count as 14, and the window of a SYN is never scaled. While the scale is unknown, the configured fallback window is used. A segment whose bytes or FIN start more than hole_give_up_window_factor windows (2 if None) after the highest or ACKed offset can't have been accepted by the receiver. It is not stored and counts as an out-of-window segment. This keeps an injected FIN far ahead from blocking the real FIN, and a forged segment far ahead from allocating a buffer for the hole before it. The reference model applies the same window rule, using the unscaled windows of the segments, and a new proptest injects segments with bytes or FINs after the end of the streams into connections with random windows. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An ACK now only counts if it lies at most one receive window after the bytes the sender is known to have sent, where the FIN occupies one more position. The window is the one the receiver advertised before the ACK's segment, because that window limited what the sender could send; the window in the same segment may already have shrunk. An ACK after the highest offset shows that the sender sent bytes the capture missed, so it moves the highest offset to it and the missing bytes become a hole, merged with a hole that ends at the highest offset. An ACK never marks bytes after the FIN. When the ACK of a FIN arrives before the FIN, the FIN's position first counts as a missing byte; the FIN then cuts the hole. FINs are therefore checked against the received bytes instead of the highest offset. The reference model applies the same ACK rules, and the random ACK proptest uses random windows, so that some of its ACKs are ignored. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The receiver ignores retransmitted bytes it already ACKed, so they no longer count as conflicting retransmissions. This keeps keep-alive probes from making a stream unclean: Windows sends the last ACKed byte again, often with different content. Missing bytes before the ACKed offset are still filled by retransmissions. The reference model only compares bytes from the read and ACKed offsets on. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The status gets counters for gaps, resyncs and rejected bytes in later tickets, which takes it past the 128 bits the coding style allows for Copy. status() now returns a reference. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`truncate_to` cuts the sorted holes at an offset. Moving that into `truncate_ranges` lets the next commit cut the gaps the same way. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Users decide themselves when waiting for a retransmission is no longer worth it. `give_up_hole()` turns the hole at the read position into a gap, reading returns `TcpRead::Gap` until `consume_gap()` steps over it, and the status counts gaps and their bytes. A gap makes the stream unclean. Gaps are kept in a sorted list next to the holes. Bytes that arrive in a gap are ignored: they are neither stored nor compared for conflicts. A FIN only has to lie at or after the received bytes, so a FIN inside a gap that an ACK created cuts the gap like it cuts a hole. When the user already stepped over such a gap, the FIN lies before the read position, which moves back to it. Otherwise giving up the position of a FIN whose ACK arrived first would keep the stream from ever finishing. The reference model learns gaps, and the new proptest `reader_actions` loses and delays segments, adds ACKs after the sent bytes, and lets the reader give up holes and step over gaps. Afterwards, giving up every hole must let both streams be read up to their highest offset, and a captured FIN must end its stream. The regression seeds come from hand-made mutants. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`discard_until(offset)` discards the unread bytes and the holes before an offset. `discard_all()` does so up to the highest offset, so that the stream continues with the next new bytes. Discarding keeps the stream clean, also where bytes were missing. The user doesn't want these bytes, and a parser that skips data while it still arrives out of order would otherwise turn a segment that is merely late into a gap. Offsets after the highest offset count as the highest offset. This keeps the read position at or before the highest offset, which the holes and the window checks are based on. To discard bytes that haven't arrived yet, call it again once they arrived. The reference model and the proptest `reader_actions` learn discarding, at offsets shortly or far after the read position. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The spec (`.scratch/tcp-reassembler/spec.md`) holds the decisions and the numbered behaviour rules of the TCP reassembler. The 16 tickets under `issues/` cut it into tracer-bullet steps. Their `## Comments` record the decisions taken while implementing tickets 01 to 05, and the carry-overs for the tickets still to come. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A hole that the implied ACK or a long enough seen ACK lets the reassembler give up is now an "overdue hole". Late segments still fill it, and it becomes a gap only once the read position reaches it or the connection ends. It becomes a gap as a whole, so one lost range gives one gap. `is_finished()` stays strict, so an overdue hole keeps it false. A connection whose FINs are both ACKed still ends as `Finished` once only overdue holes are left, and at every end its holes become counted gaps. At eviction, ACK-covered holes count as overdue. In an overdue hole, a 1-byte keep-alive at the seen ACK is ignored, so its filler byte doesn't end up in the stream. The glossary, ADR-0002, the spec rules (K4, D3, F2, F3, F5, P6) and ticket 06 are updated, with carry-overs on tickets 11 and 12. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The model used the default configuration. It now takes the pool's one, so that proptests can vary the inference settings that the next commits add. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A sender sends at most one receive window after the receiver's ACK. So the receiver must have ACKed the bytes up to k windows before the highest offset, where k is `hole_give_up_window_factor` (K2). This implied ACK is updated after every packet of the connection. The ACKed offset is the higher of the seen and the implied ACK (K3), so `read_acked()` also delivers bytes of captures without ACKs, and retransmissions of these bytes are not compared (D2). The implied ACK never moves back when the window grows: the bytes sent before still prove what the receiver had ACKed then. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Giving up overdue holes needs the hole at the read position too. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ached A hole whose end lies before the implied ACK is overdue: the receiver must have received its bytes, so a passive capture will most likely not see them anymore (K4 a). Such a hole stays a hole that late segments still fill. It becomes a gap only once the read position reaches it, checked after every packet and after every move of the read position. So the reassembler never drops bytes the reader hasn't reached, and reads, `holes()` and `status()` agree whether or not the user read. A hole is overdue only as a whole, so one lost range gives one gap. `is_finished()` keeps counting overdue holes, as they can still be filled. This is what keeps a stream of a one-direction capture from stalling after capture loss, which the old tcp-reassembly branch did. A regression test checks it with `read_acked()`. The reference model gives up overdue holes the same way. The proptests whose ACKs run ahead of the data now check the received bytes outside the gaps only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A hole is also overdue once the seen ACK, as it was `ack_reorder_tolerance` packets ago, covers all of it (K4 b). Every packet of the connection counts, in both directions. Like holes before the implied ACK, it becomes a gap when the read position reaches it. The tolerance keeps holes fillable in captures where an ACK arrives before the bytes it ACKs, e.g. after merging separately captured directions. Each stream keeps the packet numbers and values of its seen ACK for the last `ack_reorder_tolerance` packets, which gives the exact ACK of N packets ago also for a hole that a segment cut from a larger one. It does so only while it has holes, as later holes lie after the seen ACK. The `reordered_streams` proptest switches the rule off, as its retransmissions at random positions ACK bytes sent much later. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
K2 now says that the implied ACK uses the largest window the receiver advertised, never moves back, and is updated after each packet. K4 says that a hole is overdue after the N-th packet, whose bytes still fill it. ADR-0002 and ticket 06 record the window decision. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
Prepending bytes on a mid-stream pickup has to shift the implied ACK and the recent ACKs that ticket 06 added. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
Mid-stream pickups (ticket 07) move offset 0 back when earlier bytes arrive. The implied ACK then has to keep its position in the sequence space. Cut off at 0, it would claim the prepended bytes as ACKed, although the receiver's window implied nothing about them. The value is now kept as an `Option<i64>`, which can be negative, and is only cut off where it is used. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
TcpStreamStatus gets the field `start` with the new TcpStreamStart: `Observed` once the stream's SYN was seen, `MidStreamPickup` otherwise. A stream without a start yet counts as a mid-stream pickup, so the value only ever changes from `MidStreamPickup` to `Observed`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
A SYN-ACK of an unknown connection now starts the connection, with its sender as the responder (A2, A7). Its ACK number gives the initiator's stream an observed start, so that stream's bytes are reassembled even though its SYN was not captured. This happens before the SYN-ACK's ACK is applied, which would otherwise be ignored by the stream without a start. The window scale stays unknown until the initiator's SYN is seen (A3). A SYN arriving after the SYN-ACK still sets it, but only one with the ISN the stream started at, and only once. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
A segment with bytes of an unknown connection now starts the connection (A6), with roles guessed from the ports: the endpoint with the lower port is the responder, and with equal ports the sender of the first packet is the initiator (A7). `roles_guessed()` reports this. Pure ACKs, FINs without bytes and RSTs still start no connection. A stream without a start begins at its first bytes, as a mid-stream pickup (A4). Two exceptions, decided with the user: - A keep-alive ending at the receiver's last ACK doesn't start it. Its byte is filler (RFC 1122 4.2.3.6), the same shape that D3 ignores in overdue holes, which now shares the check. As a connection's very first packet, the ACK is not known yet, so the filler byte becomes byte 0. - A FIN without bytes starts it, empty and finished. Otherwise a connection whose one side only ACKs could never finish. The last ACK seen before a stream had a start is kept and applied once the stream starts, so an ACK captured before the bytes it ACKs still counts. Without it, a pickup that starts at its FIN never finished if the FIN's ACK was captured first. A mid-stream pickup is never complete. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
Merged captures can reorder the first packets of a stream. Until the read position of a mid-stream pickup first moves, bytes up to one window before its first byte are now put in front, moving all offsets (A5). A late SYN, or the ACK of a late SYN-ACK, moves the start to the SYN in the same way and turns the stream into an observed start. Moving the offsets also moves the FIN, the holes and the overdue state: the seen ACK, the ACKs waiting for the reorder tolerance and the implied ACK. A read before the move no longer counts for `consume`. Until then, an ACK of offset 0 or before it stays pending, like an ACK seen before the stream had a start, as it ACKs the bytes put in front later. A prepend can also add a hole before the seen ACK, which the ACK history of K4(b) has to cover, so the stream keeps that history also without holes. Afterwards, such bytes and SYNs count as out-of-window, and the bytes from the read position on are stored. A SYN that a pickup can't take is ignored with its bytes until reconnects (ticket 10) look at it. A pickup that starts at its FIN takes nothing in front, as a reader may have read its end. A segment counts as out-of-window only once, also if it has bytes both before the first byte and after the FIN. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
A connection whose roles were guessed from the ports can still see its SYN or SYN-ACK later, e.g. in a merged capture. If that SYN or SYN-ACK gives a stream an observed start, and its sender has the role the guess gave it (SYN from the initiator, SYN-ACK from the responder), the roles are confirmed and `roles_guessed()` becomes false (A7, decided with the user). A late handshake that contradicts the guess leaves the roles as they are, and still guessed: roles never change, so readers keeping state per role don't see them flip. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
The model now starts connections and streams like the pool: SYNs and bytes start a connection, with guessed roles without a SYN, and a stream without a SYN starts at its first bytes or at a FIN without bytes. It keeps working on the script's true offsets and only knows where the pool's offset 0 lies (the base), so moving the offsets on a prepend is checked without copying how the pool does it. When bytes can be prepended is stated as the rule says: until the read offset moved, and not after a pickup at a FIN. ACKs that can't be applied yet stay pending and are applied after every packet. The new proptest `mid_stream_pickups` starts the capture at a random segment, captures a few of the lost segments later (late SYNs, earlier bytes), reorders the rest, and adds keep-alives. It uses random windows and fallback windows, and random overdue settings. Its first failing seed found that the ACK history of K4(b) missed a hole that a prepend adds before the seen ACK, which is fixed in the prepend commit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
Ticks the acceptance criteria of ticket 07 and records its commits, the decisions taken while implementing (for the user to confirm), the review outcome, equivalent mutants and known limits. The three user decisions are now in the spec: a late handshake confirms guessed roles that it agrees with (A7), a keep-alive ending at the other side's ACK doesn't start a stream, and a FIN without bytes does (A4). CONTEXT.md's "Guessed roles" mentions the confirmation. Carry-overs go to tickets 08, 09, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
Earlier bytes and late SYNs were put in front of a mid-stream pickup only up to one receiver window before its first byte. They now may lie up to `hole_give_up_window_factor` windows before it (2 without one), the same range that limits bytes after the stream (S4), so reordering in front of a pickup is tolerated as much as after it (user decision, 2026-10-11). The reference model states the same range. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
The user confirmed the implementation decisions of ticket 07, apart from the range for bytes put in front of a pickup, which is now k windows (9612fc5). The spec now states them: the start of a stream without a start, the late SYN-ACK and the TCP Fast Open limit (A2), what ends prepending, its range, out-of-window counting and `consume` after a prepend (A5), RSTs with bytes or a SYN (A6), pending ACKs (K1), and the ACK history for holes added in front (K4). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
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RFC 1982 leaves the order of two serial numbers 2^31 apart undefined. So far such a sequence number was mapped 2^31 before the highest offset. Now it can't be mapped (S2): bytes and FINs there count as out-of-window, ACKs there are ignored, and a pickup can't take a SYN there. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
The counter stays 0 until streams resync; a resync makes a stream unclean (Q1). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
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Fix the nested code span.
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Header-slice field getters are named after the protocol field and decode on access, e.g. `source_port()`, `ihl()`.
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The pool accepts these documented limits but never enforces them.
The field docs promise memory bounds. TcpReassemblyPool never reads max_connections, max_total_buffered, max_pooled_buffers or max_pooled_buffer_capacity. etherparse/src/tcp_reassembly/tcp_reassembly_pool.rs lines 114-198 contain the whole pool logic, and none of these fields appear there.
Other parts of the pool also grow without a limit:
process_segmentinserts a new map entry for every new key.- Tombstones are never removed, because no eviction API exists yet.
recycle()extendsfree_bufferswithout a limit.
A user who sets max_connections: Some(10_000), as the doc example on lines 8-12 shows, gets no bound. A long capture, or traffic that sends SYNs or bytes for many keys, grows memory until the process runs out. User stories 59, 60 and 65 in the spec make this a security-monitoring contract.
The spec says this branch reaches master only after all tickets are done, and tickets 11 and 12 are still open. Use one of these options before the merge to master:
- Keep the PR unmerged until D4, P3 limits and P5/P6 eviction exist.
- Remove or hide the unimplemented fields, and state in the docs that the pool does not bound memory yet.
tcp_stream.rs is not in the reviewed files. I could not confirm whether max_stream_buffer and max_holes_per_stream are enforced there. Ticket 11 suggests that they are not.
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A stream whose sequence numbers jump far after the receiver's window,
e.g. after a large capture loss, used to ignore all later bytes. Now
the latest data after the window is the candidate of a resync (R1). An
ACK of the other side within one window of it confirms the jump (R2):
the stream continues right after the candidate's bytes, behind a gap
of unknown length (`TcpRead::Gap { len: None }`), and counts a resync.
A FIN in the candidate's segment, or right after it, ends the stream
there. An ACK beyond the window that arrives before the data is kept,
and data within one window of it resyncs at once as the new start.
The confirming ACK counts after the resync and ACKs all bytes before
the jump.
Other data, or the stream moving forward, show that the stream didn't
jump. SYNs and streams with a FIN don't resync. The holes before the
jump become gaps, as nothing can fill them anymore, and bytes and FINs
from before the jump are ignored after it. A resync also ends putting
bytes in front of a mid-stream pickup.
Existing proptests produce such resyncs with their small windows, so
the reference model follows them. Injected segments in the
out-of-window proptest carry no ACK anymore, so it shows that nothing
resyncs without confirmation.
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One-direction captures have no ACKs to confirm a jump. With `resync_after_segments = Some(n)`, n consecutive segments after the window, each within one window of the one before, make the last of them the stream's new start (R3). A segment that doesn't agree starts the count again, and other bytes or a resync end it. No ACK lifts the seen ACK to such a resync point, so ACKs from before the jump are now ignored after it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
`force_resync()` makes the next segment with bytes the stream's new start, behind a gap of unknown length (R4), wherever it lies. That recovers jumps that a resync doesn't detect, e.g. a new initial sequence number that lies before the stream's bytes. It does nothing before the stream started or after its FIN, and ends putting bytes in front of a mid-stream pickup. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
The model follows resyncs after consecutive agreeing segments (R3) and forced ones (R4). A new proptest makes streams jump after the window, or less far, with the other side's ACKs or from one direction only, on captured handshakes and on pickups, with `resync_after_segments`, forced resyncs, lost and reordered segments, and injected segments after the window that don't agree. The bytes after a resync are the ones sent after the jump, and in undisturbed captures every stream that jumped more than k windows resyncs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
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Groundwork for RSTs, which are applied differently from other segments but share the handling of their ACK and what follows every packet. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
An RST ends its connection as `Reset { by }` if the receiver can accept
it: its sequence number lies from the receiver's ACK up to one window
after the bytes sent (and the FIN), as RFC 9293 accepts RSTs from
RCV.NXT up to RCV.NXT + RCV.WND. No ACK moves that bound past the
received bytes, so a forged ACK can't keep real RSTs from counting. An
ACK that a pickup keeps before offset 0 counts, and after a resync
nothing before the resync point does. A stream without a start is
checked against the other side's ACK of it, and accepts any RST only
without one (e.g. SYN, then RST/ACK on a closed port).
Other RSTs are ignored with their ACK and window, and count as
out-of-window, so an injected RST can no longer end a connection. RSTs
carry no bytes of the stream.
As at every end, the remaining holes become gaps. Reads then return
`End(Fin)` at the FIN and `End(Reset)` otherwise, so `read_acked` ends
before bytes that were not ACKed.
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The model accepts an RST by the rule of F4 (from the receiver's ACK up to one window after the bytes sent, or the other side's ACK of a stream without a start) and ends the connection with it. The proptest `resets` adds an endpoint's RST at a random point, from the SYN on and with or without an ACK, plus injected RSTs before and after the stream's end, with loss, one-direction captures and pickups. The segments after the RST check that late segments are ignored, and the ended connection is read to its end. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WdDUtGBbzVQPjwFv6dbyeH
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Work in progress, please don't merge yet. Tickets 01–09 of 16 are done. The branch goes into master only once every ticket is done.
What this adds
A new
tcp_reassemblymodule, gated onstdlikedefrag. ItsTcpReassemblyPoolrebuilds the byte streams of TCP connections from captured segments:read_received, orread_ackedfor ACKed bytes only) and thenconsumewhat you used. Gaps (TcpRead::Gap) and ends (TcpRead::End) are reported explicitly. Positions are 64-bit offsets, so they don't wrap around.No new dependencies, and no allocations outside the module.
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AGENTS.md,CLAUDE.md,docs/coding-style.md,docs/agents/.CONTEXT.mdand two ADRs:docs/adr/0001(contiguous buffers that users pull from) anddocs/adr/0002(inferring the receiver's state)..scratch/tcp-reassembler/.spec.mdholds the numbered behaviour rules (S/A/D/K/R/F/C/P/Q) that tests and code comments refer to, plus the user decisions behind them.Progress
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