[Linux-decnet-user] Closing DECNET connections

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

Hello,

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.

Thanks in advance for the answer,
Robert Lhota
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