Re: Dropping connections without RST

[Archie Cobbs]

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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