[ On Wednesday, June 5, 2002 at 01:49:35 (-0400), der Mouse wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: thoughts on limiting connections to a socket
>
> > maybe TCP needs an equivalent of SMTP's "421 please come back later"
> > response so it can say I'm here, and I'm listening, but I'm too damn
> > busy right now....
> 
> Hm, this sounds pretty close to accepting the connection and
> advertising a zero window.  With a little effort, I would expect the
> overhead to get down to the order of half-open connections (ie, the
> table maintained by the SYN-flood defenses).

No, I mean that's the end of the connection attempt -- the client gets
an ETOOBLOODYBUSY instead of ECONNREFUSED....  :-)  (EAGAIN I mean :-)

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