Re: Suppress / delay SYN-ACK

Lennert Buytenhek
2006-10-16T07:02:14Z

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:08:53AM +0200, Martin Schiller wrote:

> I'm searching for a solution to suppress / delay the SYN-ACK packet of a
> listening server (-application) until he has decided (e.g. analysed the
> requesting ip-address or checked if the corresponding other end of a
> connection is available) if he wants to accept the connect request of the
> client. If not, it should be possible to reject the connect request.

I wrote something like this a couple of years ago:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=103666165629419&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=106089519611631&w=2

There wasn't a whole lot of external interest, and my need for it
disappeared, so I never really finished it, and there's a couple of
unfixed bugs,

cheers,
Lennert