Subject: Re: Obtaining client IP address before accept(2)
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/13/2005 21:42:27
--BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Salut,

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 09:00:37AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> Except that that means the connection comes up, in the TCP sense, which
> as I read it is what Matt was trying to avoid.

However, the userland routines give you a conenction that has already
been ack'd.

> Firewall?  What firewall?
>=20
> Why should I have to set up a firewall to get this behaviour?

Look at e.g. spamd

> It can?  When I do that, I see a FIN segment, not an RST.

Shouldn't you only get a FIN when you shutdown() the socket before you
close() it?

				Tonnerre

--BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (NetBSD)

iD8DBQFC1W6jXUVlAbfmNMIRAozbAKCrL08bdvHS8d02Ryv5VCZqt4jO0gCfYjPk
mXJ64ruq0xp98JTVdNkB8TI=
=LUk3
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl--