netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL

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Message-Id: <20070327.163620.54190045.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:36:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mhuth@...sta.com
Cc:	dagriego@...il.com, davem@...emloft.ne, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL

From: Mark Huth <mhuth@...sta.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:09:30 -0700

> Actually, there are legitimate uses for this sort of API.  The patch 
> allows an administrator to kill specific connections that are in use by 
> other applications, where the close is not available, since the socket 
> is owned by another process.

Anything that wants to act as an external agent to manipulate
or terminate connections should use netfilter.
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