diff --git a/libp2p/network/connection/exceptions.py b/libp2p/network/connection/exceptions.py
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+++ b/libp2p/network/connection/exceptions.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+from libp2p.io.exceptions import IOException
+
+
+class RawConnError(IOException):
+    pass