When we have sender A and receiver B, and B closes its connection unilaterally (see JGRP-1873), then a GET-FIRST-SEQNO will be sent from B to A when A's next message is received. This can potentially generate a lot of traffic.
Example:

1. B has no entry for A in its recv-table
2. A has B:: 100 | 1000, so only message A::100 has been acked by B (STABLE or ACK message
3. If B now gets A::560, it sends a GET-FIRST-SEQNO(560) to A
   • As a matter of fact, for any message from A that not marked as first, B will send a GET-FIRST-SEQNO message: too much traffic
4. A now sends messages A::101 - A::560 to B
   • This is also not needed: too much traffic

Solution to reduce traffic

• Receiver: add timestamp to recv-table entries which drops GET-FIRST-SEQNO messages sent sooner than N ms after the previous one
  • So rather than sending 1000 GET-FIRST-SEQNO messages to A when receiving 1000 unicasts from A not marked as first, we might only send a single message
• Sender: when a GET-FIRST-SEQNO(560) message is received from B, only send the lowest sent (101) and the highest sent (560) back to B
  • B will then retransmit all missing messages in that range
  • For UNICAST3, we can only send the lowest sent message (101) as it will retransmit A::1000 anyway and therefore trigger retransmission