[962] in linux-net channel archive
Re: telnet/ftp/rlogin/rsh not working between Linux machines. (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Shaver)
Wed Aug 23 00:44:37 1995
From: Mike Shaver <shaver@neon.ingenia.com>
To: agulbra@troll.no (Arnt Gulbrandsen)
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 06:30:37 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: almesber@lrc.epfl.ch, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <29559.1970.1061535195@pentagram.troll.no> from "Arnt Gulbrandsen" at Aug 22, 3 08:53:15 am
Arnt Gulbrandsen mumbled something vague about:
> > Or you could add a hear() system call that would return a struct
> > something *, which could be checked for stuff like source and
> > destination address and port before calling accept()...
>
> Not sufficient. When you've checked it, what can you do? accept()
> now or later. getpeername() on a select()able socket can do what you
> suggest hear() should, but a reject() call is absolutely necessary.
I'd actually want two: reject() sends the ICMP/RST packets and such,
and ignore() just clears the entry from the queue without a word to
the other machine.
But yeah, hear() alone isn't enough.
I wonder what the TLI mechanisms look like... anyone know if *BSD has
TLI, or if I can get the source anywhere else?
Mike
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