From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Predrag Hodoba" Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:10:38 +0200 Message-ID: <46d726f90703300810q619e8bbmb5b15a58ff37bbed@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070327214754.GA11677@dag-work> <20070327.153025.45876618.davem@davemloft.net> <46d726f90703290756k1894b0aal8df85d46d8c2a25e@mail.gmail.com> <20070329.114139.55510589.davem@davemloft.net> <460C6348.5030904@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dagriego@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "Stephen Hemminger" , "David Miller" Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.183]:58726 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753348AbXC3PKj (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:10:39 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so243400pyi for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:10:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <460C6348.5030904@osdl.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 30/03/07, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > David Miller wrote: > > > > Something being in the CGL specification is to me exactly a great > > reason NOT to add it. That specification is so full of garbage it's > > unbelievable. > > > > Thanks, you've given me one more reason not to even remotely consider > > adding this feature. > > > Agreed, CGL is a vendor driven group that has always wanted to replicate > proprietary misfeatures onto Linux. There is a real requirement to > provide high availability but there should be no requirement to implement > the solution in the same crap way as legacy Unix. OK, let's put aside CGL and legacy Unices. Still, I don't see how the case I mentioned can easily be handled. (The case being - effective clean up of all affected client TCP connections, following failover of the server IP address from active to passive node in a highly available cluster).