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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Dropping connections without RST
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908161843160.47836-100000@smarter.than.nu> from "Brian W. Buchanan" at "Aug 16, 1999 06:44:39 pm"
To: brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Brian W. Buchanan)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:19:09 -0700 (PDT)
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Brian W. Buchanan writes:
> > > Can anyone think of any reason why this feature should
> > > not be implemented?
> > 
> > I like that idea... net.inet.{tcp,udp}.drop_in_vain ?
> 
> Why do we need a sysctl knob for this when it can be easily accomplished
> with IPFW?

Not that easily.. how are you going to make ipfw dynamically know
which ports have listeners and which don't?

-Archie

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