diff --git a/docs/requirements/Component-DataConnectionLayer.md b/docs/requirements/Component-DataConnectionLayer.md
index 15f2966c..e203e4b1 100644
--- a/docs/requirements/Component-DataConnectionLayer.md
+++ b/docs/requirements/Component-DataConnectionLayer.md
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ The DCL manages connection lifecycle automatically:
 3. **Connection state transitions**: The DCL tracks each connection's state as `connected`, `disconnected`, or `reconnecting`. All transitions are logged to Site Event Logging (event type `connection`): the initial connect (`Connection established on … endpoint`, Info — added by review 2026-10-21, it previously logged nothing), connection lost / reconfigured (`Warning` / `Info`), restored on reconnect (`Info`) and failover (`Warning`).
 4. **Transparent re-subscribe**: On successful reconnection, the DCL automatically re-establishes all previously active subscriptions for that connection. Instance Actors require no action — they simply see quality return to `good` as fresh values arrive from restored subscriptions.
 5. **Clean client replacement on (re)connect**: On every (re)connect the adapter detaches and disposes the previous protocol client (session, keep-alive timers, event loop) before creating a new one — a stale client can neither leak nor signal a disconnect against the new session.
-6. **Session generation on same-adapter reconnect** (review 2026-10-21, finding C1): a plain drop + reconnect reuses the adapter object, so `SwapAdapter`'s generation bump never runs. On a successful reconnect the actor therefore advances `_adapterGeneration` itself — **before** `ReSubscribeAll` — and re-hooks the adapter's `Disconnected` handler for the new generation (new handler hooked before the old one is removed, so a disconnect in between is never lost). Every subscribe/alarm completion, value callback and seed started against the dead session then takes the existing stale path. That path releases a stale completion's handles against the adapter that created them, **except** when that adapter is still the current one: the handles died with the dead session, and releasing by handle against the adapter's NEW session could tear down a live item. Before the fix a dead-session initial-subscribe completion (in flight up to `SeedOverallTimeout`) was applied against the new session — parking a dead handle that made the live re-subscribe row look redundant and get released (the tag read resolved and stayed silent), or releasing a handle number the new MxGateway session had reused, and a connection-level failure row in it knocked the fresh link back into Reconnecting.
+6. **Session generation on same-adapter reconnect** (review 2026-10-21, finding C1): a plain drop + reconnect reuses the adapter object, so `SwapAdapter`'s generation bump never runs. Each **reconnect attempt** therefore advances `_adapterGeneration` itself — before its `ConnectAsync` is issued — and re-hooks the adapter's `Disconnected` handler for the new generation (new handler hooked before the old one is removed). The attempt's `ConnectResult`, the new session's `Disconnected` and the `ReSubscribeAll` that follows a success all share that generation, so a disconnect queued right behind a successful result is still acted on (advancing the generation only when the result was applied would have dropped it as stale and wedged the actor Connected on a dead session — the adapter raises `Disconnected` once per session). The initial connect does not advance it: no session has existed yet. Every subscribe/alarm completion, value callback and seed started against the dead session then takes the existing stale path. That path releases a stale completion's handles against the adapter that created them, **except** when that adapter is still the current one: the handles died with the dead session, and releasing by handle against the adapter's NEW session could tear down a live item. Before the fix a dead-session initial-subscribe completion (in flight up to `SeedOverallTimeout`) was applied against the new session — parking a dead handle that made the live re-subscribe row look redundant and get released (the tag read resolved and stayed silent), or releasing a handle number the new MxGateway session had reused, and a connection-level failure row in it knocked the fresh link back into Reconnecting.
 7. **Session-scoped MxGateway subscription ids** (findings C1 + L1): gateway item handles are plain ints that restart per session, so `MxGatewayDataConnection` hands out ids of the form `"{session}:{handle}"` and only ever sends a handle to the gateway when its session is the live one — a dead session's id is dropped silently instead of unadvising whatever the new session gave that number. The adapter's routing maps are cleared on every `ConnectAsync`, `DisconnectAsync` and `DisposeAsync` (they previously kept every dead session's entries, growing per flap), and a subscribe completing after a reconnect does not repopulate them. An alarm unsubscribe for an id the adapter does not know no longer decrements the shared alarm stream's reference count.
 
 ### Disconnect Detection Pattern
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DataConnectionLayer/Actors/DataConnectionActor.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DataConnectionLayer/Actors/DataConnectionActor.cs
index 54fd1376..0cc79f85 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DataConnectionLayer/Actors/DataConnectionActor.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DataConnectionLayer/Actors/DataConnectionActor.cs
@@ -269,10 +269,12 @@ public class DataConnectionActor : UntypedActor, IWithTimers
     /// </para>
     ///
     /// <para>
-    /// Residual (accepted, and in the safe direction): a disconnect raised by the PREVIOUS
-    /// session but delivered after the next attempt has already cleared the flag is attributed to
-    /// the new attempt, costing one extra reconnect cycle. Being wedged Connected on a dead
-    /// adapter is the failure this trades against.
+    /// Each attempt advances the session generation before it is issued, so a disconnect the
+    /// PREVIOUS session already raised (stamped with its generation) is dropped as stale rather
+    /// than attributed to the new attempt. Residual (accepted, and in the safe direction): a
+    /// previous-session disconnect raised only AFTER the next attempt re-hooked the handler is
+    /// attributed to the new attempt, costing one extra reconnect cycle. Being wedged Connected
+    /// on a dead adapter is the failure this trades against.
     /// </para>
     /// </summary>
     private bool _disconnectDuringConnectAttempt;
@@ -408,7 +410,7 @@ public class DataConnectionActor : UntypedActor, IWithTimers
         switch (message)
         {
             case AttemptConnect:
-                HandleAttemptConnect();
+                HandleAttemptConnect(advanceSession: false);
                 break;
             case ConnectResult result:
                 HandleConnectResult(result);
@@ -736,6 +738,9 @@ public class DataConnectionActor : UntypedActor, IWithTimers
     /// <summary>
     /// Advances <see cref="_adapterGeneration"/> for a new SESSION on the SAME adapter — a plain
     /// drop + reconnect, where <see cref="SwapAdapter"/> never runs (review 2026-10-21 02/C1).
+    /// Called by <see cref="HandleAttemptConnect"/> before each RECONNECT attempt is issued, so the
+    /// attempt's result, the new session's <c>Disconnected</c> and everything started after it
+    /// share one generation, and anything started against an earlier session is stale.
     ///
     /// <para>
     /// Without it, an initial subscribe issued against the dead session (in flight for up to
@@ -751,9 +756,9 @@ public class DataConnectionActor : UntypedActor, IWithTimers
     /// <para>
     /// The <c>Disconnected</c> handler stamps the generation it was hooked with, so it is
     /// re-hooked for the new generation. The new handler is hooked BEFORE the old one is
-    /// removed: a disconnect raised in between is then delivered twice (old stamp dropped as
-    /// stale, new stamp acted on) rather than lost, which would wedge the actor Connected on a
-    /// dead session.
+    /// removed, so no window exists with no handler at all. Because this runs before the
+    /// attempt's <c>ConnectAsync</c>, the only disconnects that can carry the OLD stamp belong
+    /// to the previous (already-dead) session and are correctly dropped as stale.
     /// </para>
     /// </summary>
     private void AdvanceSessionGeneration()
@@ -852,7 +857,7 @@ public class DataConnectionActor : UntypedActor, IWithTimers
         switch (message)
         {
             case AttemptConnect:
-                HandleAttemptConnect();
+                HandleAttemptConnect(advanceSession: true);
                 break;
             case ConnectResult result:
                 HandleReconnectResult(result);
@@ -944,13 +949,27 @@ public class DataConnectionActor : UntypedActor, IWithTimers
 
     // ── Connection Management ──
 
-    private void HandleAttemptConnect()
+    /// <param name="advanceSession">
+    /// True from Reconnecting: a session has existed on this adapter, so the attempt opens a NEW
+    /// one and gets its own generation (see <see cref="AdvanceSessionGeneration"/>). False from
+    /// the initial Connecting state, where no session has ever been established and nothing is
+    /// in flight against one, so the generation the handler and result share is already right.
+    /// </param>
+    private void HandleAttemptConnect(bool advanceSession)
     {
         _log.Debug("[{0}] Attempting connection...", _connectionName);
         // Scope the pending-disconnect flag to THIS attempt. Anything noted before now
         // belongs to a session that is already over and must not be replayed against the one
         // about to start.
         _disconnectDuringConnectAttempt = false;
+        // Every reconnect attempt opens a NEW session, so it gets its own generation (review 2026-10-21
+        // 02/C1), advanced — and the Disconnected handler re-hooked — BEFORE ConnectAsync is
+        // issued. The new session's Disconnected therefore always carries the same generation
+        // as its ConnectResult: a disconnect that lands in the mailbox right behind a successful
+        // result is acted on, not dropped as stale (which would wedge the actor Connected on a
+        // dead session — the adapter raises Disconnected only once per session).
+        if (advanceSession)
+            AdvanceSessionGeneration();
         var self = Self;
         // Stamp the generation this attempt belongs to, exactly as every other piped
         // completion does. A failover or an in-place reconfigure landing while ConnectAsync
@@ -1146,12 +1165,9 @@ public class DataConnectionActor : UntypedActor, IWithTimers
                     $"Connection restored on {_activeEndpoint} endpoint", null);
             }
 
-            // The adapter object survived the drop but its SESSION did not. Advance the
-            // generation BEFORE re-subscribing so every completion, value and alarm callback
-            // started against the dead session takes the existing stale path (review
-            // 2026-10-21 02/C1) — exactly as it would after a swap.
-            AdvanceSessionGeneration();
-
+            // The session generation was already advanced when this attempt was issued
+            // (HandleAttemptConnect), so ReSubscribeAll below runs on the NEW session's
+            // generation and every completion from the dead one takes the stale path.
             // Transparent re-subscribe — re-establish all active subscriptions
             ReSubscribeAll();
             // Re-establish native alarm feeds (source replays a snapshot).
diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DataConnectionLayer.Tests/Actors/DataConnectionSameAdapterReconnectTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DataConnectionLayer.Tests/Actors/DataConnectionSameAdapterReconnectTests.cs
index 84808ada..56c72b86 100644
--- a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DataConnectionLayer.Tests/Actors/DataConnectionSameAdapterReconnectTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DataConnectionLayer.Tests/Actors/DataConnectionSameAdapterReconnectTests.cs
@@ -187,6 +187,58 @@ public class DataConnectionSameAdapterReconnectTests : TestKit
         Assert.DoesNotContain("live-2", adapter.ReleasedIds);
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The connect-result/disconnect race (adversarial review of the C1 fix). The (re)connect
+    /// succeeds and its <c>ConnectResult</c> is enqueued; before the actor processes it the new
+    /// session dies, so the adapter's once-only <c>Disconnected</c> lands in the mailbox AFTER the
+    /// result. That disconnect belongs to the session the result describes and must drive the
+    /// actor back to Reconnecting — if it were stamped with a generation the result's processing
+    /// then advanced past, it would be dropped as stale and the actor would sit Connected on a
+    /// dead session that never raises Disconnected again.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="reconnect">False: the initial connect; true: a same-adapter reconnect.</param>
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData(false)]
+    [InlineData(true)]
+    public void DisconnectQueuedBehindASuccessfulConnectResult_IsNotLost(bool reconnect)
+    {
+        var name = reconnect ? "race-reconnect" : "race-initial";
+        var adapter = new GatedAdapter();
+        var connectGate = new TaskCompletionSource(TaskCreationOptions.RunContinuationsAsynchronously);
+        adapter.NextConnectGate = connectGate.Task;
+        var actor = CreateConnectionActor(name, adapter);
+        var expectedConnectCalls = 1;
+
+        if (reconnect)
+        {
+            connectGate.SetResult();
+            AwaitConnectedCount(name, 1);
+            connectGate = new TaskCompletionSource(TaskCreationOptions.RunContinuationsAsynchronously);
+            adapter.NextConnectGate = connectGate.Task;
+            adapter.RaiseDisconnected();
+            expectedConnectCalls = 2;
+        }
+
+        AwaitCondition(() => Volatile.Read(ref adapter.ConnectCalls) == expectedConnectCalls, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
+        var disconnectsBefore = HealthTransitions(name, ConnectionHealth.Disconnected);
+
+        // Hold the actor inside a health-report read …
+        using var hold = new ManualResetEventSlim(false);
+        adapter.HoldStatus = hold;
+        actor.Tell(new DataConnectionActor.GetHealthReport());
+        Assert.True(adapter.StatusEntered.Wait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5)));
+
+        // … while the connect succeeds (its result queues behind the held message) …
+        connectGate.SetResult();
+        Thread.Sleep(300);
+        // … and the new session dies at once, queuing its disconnect behind the result.
+        adapter.RaiseDisconnected();
+        hold.Set();
+
+        AwaitCondition(() => HealthTransitions(name, ConnectionHealth.Disconnected) > disconnectsBefore,
+            TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5), TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(20));
+    }
+
     /// <summary>One gated <c>SubscribeBatchAsync</c> call.</summary>
     internal sealed class PendingBatch
     {
@@ -219,7 +271,33 @@ public class DataConnectionSameAdapterReconnectTests : TestKit
 
         public readonly ConcurrentQueue<string> ReleasedIds = new();
 
-        public ConnectionHealth Status { get; private set; } = ConnectionHealth.Disconnected;
+        private ConnectionHealth _status = ConnectionHealth.Disconnected;
+
+        /// <summary>When set, the NEXT read of <see cref="Status"/> signals <see cref="StatusEntered"/> and blocks on it — a latch that holds the actor mid-message.</summary>
+        public ManualResetEventSlim? HoldStatus;
+
+        /// <summary>Set once a held <see cref="Status"/> read has started.</summary>
+        public readonly ManualResetEventSlim StatusEntered = new(false);
+
+        /// <summary>When set, the next <see cref="ConnectAsync"/> returns this task instead of completing at once.</summary>
+        public Task? NextConnectGate;
+
+        /// <summary>Number of <see cref="ConnectAsync"/> calls so far.</summary>
+        public int ConnectCalls;
+
+        public ConnectionHealth Status
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                if (Interlocked.Exchange(ref HoldStatus, null) is { } hold)
+                {
+                    StatusEntered.Set();
+                    hold.Wait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
+                }
+                return _status;
+            }
+            private set => _status = value;
+        }
 
         public event Action? Disconnected;
 
@@ -244,8 +322,9 @@ public class DataConnectionSameAdapterReconnectTests : TestKit
 
         public Task ConnectAsync(IDictionary<string, string> connectionDetails, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
         {
+            Interlocked.Increment(ref ConnectCalls);
             Status = ConnectionHealth.Connected;
-            return System.Threading.Tasks.Task.CompletedTask;
+            return Interlocked.Exchange(ref NextConnectGate, null) ?? System.Threading.Tasks.Task.CompletedTask;
         }
 
         public Task DisconnectAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken = default) =>