From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: mhuth@mvista.com, dagriego@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.ne,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:02:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <460A04ED.5050203@cosmosbay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070327.163620.54190045.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller a écrit :
> From: Mark Huth <mhuth@mvista.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:09:30 -0700
>
>> Actually, there are legitimate uses for this sort of API. The patch
>> allows an administrator to kill specific connections that are in use by
>> other applications, where the close is not available, since the socket
>> is owned by another process.
>
> Anything that wants to act as an external agent to manipulate
> or terminate connections should use netfilter.
This is what I thought too at the begining.
But after some thinking I recalled having to reboot machines just because
netfilter was not in (because of noticeable performance hit), and I could find
the tree to compile netfilter as modules..
When I saw revoke() work in progess, I did react like you : This is coming
from hell...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-28 6:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-27 21:47 [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL David Griego
2007-03-27 22:30 ` David Miller
2007-03-27 23:09 ` Mark Huth
2007-03-27 23:36 ` David Miller
2007-03-28 6:02 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2007-03-28 6:35 ` David Miller
2007-03-28 0:27 ` John Heffner
2007-03-28 0:34 ` John Heffner
2007-03-28 3:09 ` Herbert Xu
2007-03-28 1:52 ` David Miller
2007-03-28 0:04 ` Rick Jones
2007-03-29 14:56 ` Predrag Hodoba
2007-03-29 18:41 ` David Miller
2007-03-30 1:09 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-30 15:10 ` Predrag Hodoba
2007-03-30 18:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-30 19:09 ` Predrag Hodoba
2007-03-30 20:46 ` Rick Jones
2007-03-31 6:25 ` Predrag Hodoba
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