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authorchris <chris@FreeBSD.org>2002-12-31 16:29:15 +0000
committerchris <chris@FreeBSD.org>2002-12-31 16:29:15 +0000
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A refused connection will return ECONNREFUSED rather than ECONNRESET.
PR: docs/46654 Submitted by: Christian S.J. Peron <maneo@bsdpro.com>
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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ are received on TCP or UDP ports where there is no socket listening.
Normal behaviour, when a TCP SYN segment is received on a port where
there is no socket accepting connections, is for the system to return
a RST segment, and drop the connection. The connecting system will
-see this as a "Connection reset by peer". By setting the TCP blackhole
+see this as a "Connection refused". By setting the TCP blackhole
MIB to a numeric value of one, the incoming SYN segment
is merely dropped, and no RST is sent, making the system appear
as a blackhole. By setting the MIB value to two, any segment arriving
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