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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: Mail List - Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Best way to kill a live TCP connection?
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:10:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2CC740.9090007@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D2C95ED.70805@plouf.fr.eu.org>

On 01/11/11 11:39, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> 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.

Wouldn't it be possible to send packet to user space and have something 
else send the reset packets to both ends?  I.e. use IPTables to match 
the packets and have a user space daemon act on what IPTables matched.

(I'm speaking out of my arse here, so ignore me if I'm way off base.)



Grant. . . .

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-11 21:10 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
2011-01-11 21:10       ` Grant Taylor [this message]
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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