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From: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
To: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Cc: Mark Huth <mhuth@mvista.com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	dagriego@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:34:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4609B80A.6070906@psc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4609B680.7070601@psc.edu>

John Heffner wrote:
> I also believe this is a useful thing to have.  I'm not 100% sure this 
> ioctl is the way to go, but it seems reasonable.  This directly 
> corresponds to writing deleteTcb to the tcpConnectionState variable in 
> the TCP MIB (RFC 4022).  I don't think it constitutes a protocol violation.

Responding to myself in good form :P  I'll add that there are other ways 
to do this currently but all I know of are hackish, f.e. using a raw 
socket to send RST packets to yourself.

   -John

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-28  0:39 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
2007-03-28  6:35         ` David Miller
2007-03-28  0:27     ` John Heffner
2007-03-28  0:34       ` John Heffner [this message]
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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