Re: Best way to kill a live TCP connection?

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On 11/Jan/11 15:41, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Tuesday 2011-01-11 13:35, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>this is clearly an overworked topic.  However, I haven't been able to
>>find definitive info about it.  Please help providing more insight.
>>In particular, if it is possible/convenient to design an RST injector
>>and how to attach it to iptables?
> 
> If you use a ruleset that emits RST for NEW connections that are picked 
> up rather than SYN-new,
> 
> -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -p tcp ! --syn --dport 22 -j REJECT 
> --reject-with tcp-reset
> 
> .. makes it possible to RST-kill connections using `conntrack -D`.

That's the most elegant method I've seen thus far.  Thanks a lot!

A generic rule like that (i.e. without --dport) is mentioned in the
tutorial http://www.iptables.info/en/iptables-problems.html#NEWNOTSYN
but I never realized it can be used this way.  (I CC this there.)
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