Subject: Re: kern/35196: sockets should die if addresses vanish
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@netbsd.org,>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/08/2006 13:20:19
On Dec 8,  5:25pm, reed@reedmedia.net ("Jeremy C. Reed") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/35196: sockets should die if addresses vanish

| The following reply was made to PR kern/35196; it has been noted by GNATS.
| 
| From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
| To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
| Cc: 
| Subject: Re: kern/35196: sockets should die if addresses vanish
| Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 11:21:55 -0600 (CST)
| 
|  A sysctl for dropping tcp is found via 
|  http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~dheeraj/netbsd.html
|  
|  (As an alternative maybe?)

This patch has been around too long and it is really useful. The enemy
of the good is the best. We need to decide on how to incorporate it
in the source tree. I still think that sysctl is hacky, but I don't
have any better ideas.

christos