From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 16 20:40:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74F4714CC0 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA10285; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:41:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199908170341.UAA10285@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Dropping connections without RST In-Reply-To: <199908170219.TAA01050@bubba.whistle.com> from Archie Cobbs at "Aug 16, 1999 07:19:09 pm" To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:41:06 -0700 (PDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? What you going to do about wild card listners: udp 0 0 *.* *.* -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message