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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:23:23 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        bob@buckhorn.net
Cc:        jan@digitaldaemon.com, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Killing TCP/IP connection.
Message-ID:  <54706.998051003@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2001 06:41:16 -0500"
References:  <3B7D02DC.546A2E50@buckhorn.net>

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> > Hi, is there a way to force and end to a TCP/IP connection that shows
> > with netstat -na ?
> > Something like kill -HUP or -kill -TERM, but then on a socket? <g>
> > 
> Use sockstat -4. It will give you the PID of the offending connection.
> Then you can kill it.

Unfortunately, you *don't* always want to kill the process - think of
a server process handling many clients connections. You want to kill
the connection to *one* client, but not the rest.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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