From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Heffner Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:34:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4609B80A.6070906@psc.edu> References: <20070327214754.GA11677@dag-work> <20070327.153025.45876618.davem@davemloft.net> <4609A42A.4040304@mvista.com> <4609B680.7070601@psc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Huth , David Miller , dagriego@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: John Heffner Return-path: Received: from mailer1.psc.edu ([128.182.58.100]:62424 "EHLO mailer1.psc.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934289AbXC1Ajf (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:39:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4609B680.7070601@psc.edu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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