[ug-bosug] Kill a coonection

Jayasimha Ananth jayasimha.a at gmail.com
Sun Aug 27 09:22:18 PDT 2006


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>
> What you _can_ do is change the wait intervals using ndd.  The
> following command will reduce the wait interval to 1 minute.
>
> ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_time_wait_interval 60000
>
> The next time this happens, the port will free up in 1 minute.
> This is not recommended, however.

Why is this not recommended? Is it a security issue / performance issue/ what?

--Jayasimha



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