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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:10:38 +0200 From: "Predrag Hodoba" <predrag.hodoba@...il.com> To: "Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@...l.org>, "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: dagriego@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL On 30/03/07, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org> wrote: > David Miller wrote: > > > > Something being in the CGL specification is to me exactly a great > > reason NOT to add it. That specification is so full of garbage it's > > unbelievable. > > > > Thanks, you've given me one more reason not to even remotely consider > > adding this feature. > > > Agreed, CGL is a vendor driven group that has always wanted to replicate > proprietary misfeatures onto Linux. There is a real requirement to > provide high availability but there should be no requirement to implement > the solution in the same crap way as legacy Unix. OK, let's put aside CGL and legacy Unices. Still, I don't see how the case I mentioned can easily be handled. (The case being - effective clean up of all affected client TCP connections, following failover of the server IP address from active to passive node in a highly available cluster). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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