Stefan Monnier wrote:
[ I suppose this is not the best place to ask this, but
comp.os.linux.networking couldn't come up with a good answer and I can't
think of any intermediate step between these two groups ;-( ]
I'd like (as root, obviously) to kill some of the TCP connections visible
in netstat. I've found `tcpkill' and `cutter' but `cutter' only kills TCP
connections that go *though* the machine (in my case, the machine is not
a router, so there aren't any such thu connections anyway) and `tcpkill'
can only kill the conection after seeing some activity (and it doesn't know
to exit when the connections are killed). Also those 2 tools seem
just overkill.
I'd like simply to do (metaphorically)
rm /tcpfs/<foo>
so it should not need to involve *any* use of the TCP protocol: just kill it
locally, warn the associated process(es), free the resources and let the
other end deal with it.
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.
I'd like a way to just close TCP connections which are misbehaving in
some way, not necessarily due to bad intent. I envision some tool which
would take either IP or IP+port and send an RST to both ends. Yes, I
could write one, but I bet someone already has. I did something similar
a few years ago, but the requestor owns the code.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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