Re: OK, now that we agree

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Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk)
Tue, 9 Apr 1996 18:49:34 +0100 (BST)

> OK, then how does the kernel react to inbound SYNs, etc.? Does it
> forge them back itself, or somehow get the process to?

If you are masquerading I guess the kernel would do it.

> I'd prefer having the process do it, because otherwise it's hard to
> handle to semantics of CONNREFUSED correctly.

Humm.. I guess the masquerade can always reply with stuff like

"550 Host is down"

if its connect fails.

Alan