RE: UDP stop transmitting packets!!!

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Mar 16 2001 - 16:52:06 EST


Mathieu Giguere (LMC) writes:
> Thanks for your answer.
> We will have a patch internally to handle this protection.

I would like to clarify my statements:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David S. Miller [SMTP:davem@redhat.com]
> > Subject: RE: UDP stop transmitting packets!!!
> >
> > If you kill the application, the queue is emptied and tossed
> > by the kernel.

This should be "If you close the socket" then the queue will
be drained and free'd by the kernel. Killing the application
is one way to get the socket closed.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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