[2449] in linux-net channel archive
Re: OK, now that we agree
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Apr 10 13:50:16 1996
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: shaver@neon.ingenia.com (Mike Shaver)
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 18:49:34 +0100 (BST)
Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604091548.LAA22512@neon.ingenia.com> from "Mike Shaver" at Apr 9, 96 11:48:00 am
> 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
