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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Accept()-ing a connection from a specific IP address...
Date: 24 May 1997 21:49:29 GMT
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knob@wizards.staff.Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) wrote:

> What I would like to know is whether or not it is now possible to
> (a) use the rcvmsg() (or was that recvfrom() ?) calls for bound TCP
> sockets *and* (b) somehow discard TCP SYNs from illegitimate
> addresses and optionally tell the other side we are refusing
> connections ?

I think that's possible.  Read the IPC tutorials in /usr/share/doc, i
remember that i've seen this option been mentioned.  (It might also
have been in the Daemon Book, but ISTR it was in the online docs.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)