Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:41:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dropping connections without RST Message-ID: <199908170341.UAA10285@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <199908170219.TAA01050@bubba.whistle.com> from Archie Cobbs at "Aug 16, 1999 07:19:09 pm"
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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?
What you going to do about wild card listners:
udp 0 0 *.* *.*
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Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
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