From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 17 12:52:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inu.net (mail.inu.net [63.151.4.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C58537B409; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:52:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Received: from buckhorn.net [63.151.3.239] by inu.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A5EFA300136; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:52:18 -0500 Message-ID: <3B7D75CD.6A02B579@buckhorn.net> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:51:41 -0500 From: Bob Martin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-PRERELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Killing TCP/IP connection. References: <3B7D11CB.3728823C@buckhorn.net> <55978.998052757@verdi.nethelp.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, you *don't* always want to kill the process - think of > > > a server process handling many clients connections. You want to kill > > > the connection to *one* client, but not the rest. > > > > Since each connection gets it's own pid, this isn't a problem. You can > > kill a single ftp session or http session without interfering with the > > rest. > > That's fine for the one process per client case. But I'm talking about > the general case where *one* process handles the connections to many > clients, and you specifically *don't* have a separate process per client. > In such cases it would be very useful to have a command line facility > to kill *one* connection without interfering with the other connections > handled by the same process. > I agree, but for the life of me, I can't think of a single program that does that. The ones that give me greif are things like IMAP and FTP that open a half dozen connections for one remote client. Bob Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message