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From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Best way to kill a live TCP connection?
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:39:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2C95ED.70805@plouf.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D2C8374.70408@tana.it>

Hello,

Alessandro Vesely a écrit :
> On 11/Jan/11 15:41, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Tuesday 2011-01-11 13:35, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
>> 
>>> In particular, if it is possible/convenient to design an RST injector
>>> and how to attach it to iptables?
>> 
>> If you use a ruleset that emits RST for NEW connections that are picked 
>> up rather than SYN-new,
>>
>> -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -p tcp ! --syn --dport 22 -j REJECT 
>> --reject-with tcp-reset
>> 
>> .. makes it possible to RST-kill connections using `conntrack -D`.
> 
> That's the most elegant method I've seen thus far.  Thanks a lot!

However this sends only one RST to one side of the connection, leaving
the connection half-open - until the other side sends a packet and gets
a RST too. IMO it would be more elegant to send RSTs to boths sides of
the connection.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-11 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-11 12:35 Best way to kill a live TCP connection? Alessandro Vesely
2011-01-11 14:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-11 16:21   ` Alessandro Vesely
2011-01-11 17:39     ` Pascal Hambourg [this message]
2011-01-11 21:10       ` Grant Taylor
2011-01-11 22:31         ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-01-12  8:52           ` Alessandro Vesely
2011-01-18 17:50         ` Alessandro Vesely
2011-01-18 18:45           ` Gáspár Lajos
2011-01-19 13:32             ` Alessandro Vesely
2011-01-12  0:20     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-01-12  0:20     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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