On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:16:29PM -0400, Matthew Mondor wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:14:19 +0200
> Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> 
> > Now I'm sure I must have misunderstood something.
> > What are we talking about here? TCP, UDP, something completely different?
> 
> Yes sorry I forgot to mention it, it's for a few TCP daemons. It's not
> something that my applications absolutely need, but I was wondering if
> special features were already present on NetBSD to allow this, so that I
> could experiment with it
> 
> Basically, like der Mouse described, it would allow a userspace TCP
> daemon to in certain cases decide to not even establish the TCP
> connection with a client, based on decisions such as client IP address
> rate/concurrency limits or bans.

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