rpaulo@netbsd-pt.org (Rui Paulo) writes:

>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 ?

Have an NFS server mounted with TCP that changes its IP address.
Try to recover (or just to umount) without rebooting.

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