From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Killing a network connection
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:12:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73przg10yp.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvodf01b5i.fsf-monnier+gmane.linux.kernel@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon\, 15 Oct 2007 14\:40\:59 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> The main use for me is to deal with dangling connections due to taking
> network interfaces up&down with different IP addresses (typically the wlan0
> interface where the IP is different because I've modes from an AP to
> another). Of course, maybe there's another way to solve this particular
> problem, in case I'd like to hear about it as well.
Long ago I did a 2.4 patch that solved exactly this problem. It introduced
a new ifconfig flag "dynamic" and when a dynamic address went down
all TCP connections originating from it were killed. It's still available
in older SUSE releases. I might post a forward port later.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-15 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-15 18:40 Killing a network connection Stefan Monnier
2007-10-15 22:12 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-10-16 3:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-18 0:44 ` Bill Davidsen
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[not found] ` <9eGsi-2Sr-35@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-10-15 23:50 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-10-16 3:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-16 9:31 ` Andi Kleen
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