[Linux-decnet-user] Closing DECNET connections

[Lhota R. <rl...@co...>]

> Hello,
>=20
> I am using dnping (Linux-DECNET) for testing the availability of VAX
> machines. The timeout is set for 3 seconds. Unfortunately, dnping
> program does not implement timeout feature, so I have to kill the
> child-process if it does not respond in the timeout period. The side
> effect of this is that the DECNET stack on Linux does not close the
> connection to the VAX machine. The number of connections (users) on
> VAX machines is increasing and cosuming resources. Does anybody know
> how to clear these connections on the Linux side? Can I just restart
> the decnet stack (/etc/init.d/decnet restart) or is there some other
> way? It looks like to me that the decnet stack somehow remembers the
> connections even after service is restarted.
>=20
> Thanks in advance for the answer,
> Robert Lhota
>=20