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4.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org>
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18.\" $FreeBSD$
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20.Dd March 24, 2009
21.Dt TCPDROP 8
22.Os
23.Sh NAME
24.Nm tcpdrop
25.Nd drop TCP connections
26.Sh SYNOPSIS
27.Nm tcpdrop
28.Ar local-address
29.Ar local-port
30.Ar foreign-address
31.Ar foreign-port
32.Nm tcpdrop
33.Op Fl l
34.Fl a
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36The
37.Nm
38command may be used to drop TCP connections from the command line.
39.Pp
40If
41.Fl a
42is specified then
43.Nm
44will attempt to drop all active connections.
45The
46.Fl l
47flag may be given to list the tcpdrop invocation to drop all active
48connections one at a time.
49.Pp
50If
51.Fl a
52is not specified then only the connection between the given local
53address
54.Ar local-address ,
55port
56.Ar local-port ,
57and the foreign address
58.Ar foreign-address ,
59port
60.Ar foreign-port ,
61will be dropped.
62.Pp
63Addresses and ports may be specified by name or numeric value.
64Both IPv4 and IPv6 address formats are supported.
65.Nm
66in case of success or failure.
67.Sh EXIT STATUS
68.Ex -std
69.Sh EXAMPLES
70If a connection to
71.Xr httpd 8
72is causing congestion on a network link, one can drop the TCP session
73in charge:
74.Bd -literal -offset indent
75# sockstat -c | grep httpd
76www      httpd      16525 3  tcp4 \e
77	192.168.5.41:80      192.168.5.1:26747
78.Ed
79.Pp
80The following command will drop the connection:
81.Bd -literal -offset indent
82# tcpdrop 192.168.5.41 80 192.168.5.1 26747
83.Ed
84.Pp
85The following command will drop all connections but those to or from
86port 22, the port used by
87.Xr sshd 8 :
88.Bd -literal -offset indent
89# tcpdrop -l -a | grep -vw 22 | sh
90.Ed
91.Sh SEE ALSO
92.Xr netstat 1 ,
93.Xr sockstat 1
94.Sh AUTHORS
95.An Markus Friedl Aq markus@openbsd.org
96.An Juli Mallett Aq jmallett@FreeBSD.org
97