Messages in this thread | | | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: Killing a network connection | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:50:55 +0200 |
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Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: > Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> The main use for me is to deal with dangling connections due to taking >> network interfaces up&down with different IP addresses (typically the wlan0 >> interface where the IP is different because I've modes from an AP to >> another). Of course, maybe there's another way to solve this particular >> problem, in case I'd like to hear about it as well. > > Long ago I did a 2.4 patch that solved exactly this problem. It introduced > a new ifconfig flag "dynamic" and when a dynamic address went down > all TCP connections originating from it were killed. It's still available > in older SUSE releases. I might post a forward port later.
There is a /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr sysctl in 2.6.21. -- If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0
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