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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...


  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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