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Date:      29 Jan 2013 23:10:42 +0000
From:      "Mark Delany" <markd-freebsd-net@bushwire.net>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Allow tcpdrop to use non-space separators
Message-ID:  <20130129231042.52622.qmail@f5-external.bushwire.net>
In-Reply-To: <201301291205.41301.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <201301291205.41301.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On 29Jan13, John Baldwin allegedly wrote:
> A common use case I have at work is to find a busted connection using netstat 
> -n or sockstat and then want to tcpdrop it.  However, tcpdrop requires spaces 
> between the address and port so I can't simply cut and paste from one terminal 
> window into another to generate the tcpdrop command.  This patch adds support 
> for having a decimal (netstat output) or colon (sockstat output)

Any thoughts on including '#' as a valid port delimiter? this is
mentioned in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5952 Section 6 as an
(albeit lowly) option and it does have the benefit of avoiding both of
the ip4v/v6 delimiters.


Mark.



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