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.Dd March 24, 2009
.Dt TCPDROP 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm tcpdrop
.Nd drop TCP connections
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm tcpdrop
.Ar local-address
.Ar local-port
.Ar foreign-address
.Ar foreign-port
.Nm tcpdrop
.Op Fl l
.Fl a
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
command may be used to drop TCP connections from the command line.
.Pp
If
.Fl a
is specified then
.Nm
will attempt to drop all active connections.
The
.Fl l
flag may be given to list the tcpdrop invocation to drop all active
connections one at a time.
.Pp
If
.Fl a
is not specified then only the connection between the given local
address
.Ar local-address ,
port
.Ar local-port ,
and the foreign address
.Ar foreign-address ,
port
.Ar foreign-port ,
will be dropped.
.Pp
Addresses and ports may be specified by name or numeric value.
Both IPv4 and IPv6 address formats are supported.
.Nm
in case of success or failure.
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh EXAMPLES
If a connection to
.Xr httpd 8
is causing congestion on a network link, one can drop the TCP session
in charge:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
# sockstat -c | grep httpd
www      httpd      16525 3  tcp4 \e
	192.168.5.41:80      192.168.5.1:26747
.Ed
.Pp
The following command will drop the connection:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
# tcpdrop 192.168.5.41 80 192.168.5.1 26747
.Ed
.Pp
The following command will drop all connections but those to or from
port 22, the port used by
.Xr sshd 8 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
# tcpdrop -l -a | grep -vw 22 | sh
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr netstat 1 ,
.Xr sockstat 1
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Markus Friedl Aq markus@openbsd.org
.An Juli Mallett Aq jmallett@FreeBSD.org