Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 23:26:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>, <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Putting all PCBs into sysctl? Message-ID: <20020425232324.S7839-100000@patrocles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20020426040001.GB1530@elvis.mu.org>
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On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * George V. Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com> [020425 20:02] wrote: > > Hey Folks, > > > > I was just wondering if anyone had considered making it possible to > > control PCBs from the sysctl interface? I'm not completely familiar with > > sysctl yet, is it possible to add information to the database dynamically? > > > > It would be nice to be able to disconnect, or modify, long running > > connections, > > for instance on a machine under DOS attack or perhaps for debugging. > > > > Just an idea... > > A very good one in fact, see what you can do, I'd be interested in > seeing patches to do this safely. > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Agreed, that would be cool. The only problem I can see is how you would uniquely identify a socket. (It wouldn't be nice to kill the wrong socket because they switched out from under you.) Maybe a procfs like filesystem for sockets would be better. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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