On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 6:10:42 pm Mark Delany wrote:
> On 29Jan13, John Baldwin allegedly wrote:
> > A common use case I have at work is to find a busted connection using 
> > netstat 
> > -n or sockstat and then want to tcpdrop it.  However, tcpdrop requires 
> > spaces 
> > between the address and port so I can't simply cut and paste from one 
> > terminal 
> > window into another to generate the tcpdrop command.  This patch adds 
> > support 
> > for having a decimal (netstat output) or colon (sockstat output)
> 
> Any thoughts on including '#' as a valid port delimiter? this is
> mentioned in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5952 Section 6 as an
> (albeit lowly) option and it does have the benefit of avoiding both of
> the ip4v/v6 delimiters.

I'm not aware of any of the tools in the base system at least that use that
convention, so in terms of the original goal of making it easier to cut and
paste from the output of one program to the parameters to tcpdrop I don't
think it fits.

-- 
John Baldwin
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