Proactive indication of network session disruption

An apparatus comprising:

• a network interface configured to obtain or provide network communications;
• and
• one or more processors coupled to the network interface, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
• establish a network session between the apparatus and an endpoint based on a connection-oriented protocol;
• and
• store, in a persistent storage, one or more network attributes associated with the network session, wherein the one or more network attributes include a verification tag and wherein:
• when the network session is disrupted as a result of a failure of the apparatus, the one or more network attributes are obtained from the persistent storage;
• and
• based on the one or more network attributes, a proactive indication that the network session has been disrupted is provided to the endpoint, wherein the proactive indication is an abort chunk that includes the verification tag in which the verification tag is configured to enable the endpoint to verify one or more network communications of the network session.

One or more non-transitory computer readable storage media encoded with instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

• establish a network session between a first endpoint and a second endpoint based on a connection-oriented protocol;
• store, in a persistent storage, one or more network attributes associated with the network session, wherein the one or more network attributes include a verification tag;
• when the network session is disrupted as a result of a failure of the first endpoint, obtain the one or more network attributes from the persistent storage;
• and
• based on the one or more network attributes, provide, to the second endpoint, a proactive indication that the network session has been disrupted, wherein the proactive indication is an abort chunk that includes the verification tag in which the verification tag is configured to enable the second endpoint to verify one or more network communications of the network session.