Re: Patch for dynaddr
Erik Corry (erik@arbat.com)
Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:50:23 +0100
On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 05:29:50PM -0300, JuanJo Ciarlante wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Erik Corry wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a patch for the dynaddr functionality in 2.0.33 (the 2.1
> > version is not done yet). The patch fixes a bug and adds a little
> > new functionality.
> >
> > <http://www.image.dk/~ehcorry/linux/>
>
> By sending a true src-bogus packet we bounce at the other side to shutdown
> our socket; I find this good because returned RST packet will be seen in
> the connection path (think about diald, eg)
That's right, diald will see that the connection is dead which
will speed up the dial-on-demand timeout. I hadn't thought of that.
> instead of just shutting down
> the socket. But the server's socket will never know we are giving up,
> maybe we can act ugly-er and nicer by can shutting down our socket and
> sending a ``true'' RST.
That would be even cooler.
--
Erik Corry
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