Re: Dynamic IP hack (PR#294)

Erik Corry (erik@arbat.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 00:04:49 +0200

On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 11:40:07PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Alexey has now convinced me we need to fix one thing. Stop any sending
> of a frame from a source address we lost. Even if we go through the motions
> of it.

There's one more thing we really ought to fix, and that is
telling the application that its socket has died. That
knowledge is available, there's no need for the time-out
(which can take a very long time). Both RST-provoking
and Andi's suggestion fix that.

-- 
Erik Corry erik@arbat.com           Ceterum censeo, Microsoftem esse delendam!


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