On 11.05-08:35, Rui Paulo wrote:
> On 2005-05-11, Dheeraj S <dheeraj@ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >    The attached patches are a port of tcpdrop functionality/program
> > originally from openbsd.
> > It can be used to kill tcp connections graciously. comments ?
> >
> > tcpdrop <local-ip> <local-port> <remote-ip> <remote-ip>
> 
> I agree with Martin, why this would be useful ?
> 

For example on a Firewall with longlived TCP states, where you
want do kill a single connection but not force all other 20000 
states to break. (ipf can't selectively kill a state, or at least 
it couldn't when I last asked Darren)

Chris

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Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc@zhwin.ch
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