Re: deleteTCB in the TCP-MIB

["Kristine Adamson" <adamson@us.ibm.com>]

On Monday, February 25 2002, Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> wr
ote:

>
> The TCP-MIB (RFC 2012) as well as RFC1213-MIB (RFC 1213) define the
> writable enumerated value deleteTCB(12) for tcpConnState as follows:
>
>      If a management station sets this object to the value
>      deleteTCB(12), then this has the effect of deleting the TCB
>      (as defined in RFC 793) of the corresponding connection on
>      the managed node, resulting in immediate termination of the
>      connection.
>
> Can people on this list who have implemented a writable deleteTCB(12)
> on their boxes please send a note to either this list or privately to
> me or Bert Wijnen? It would also be useful to know if there are
> management applications that actually use deleteTCB(12) to terminate
> TCP connections.
>
> Thanks,
>
> /js


Our IBM MVS Communications Server TCP/IP product supports setting tcpConnState to deleteTCB. Also, there is an IBM MVS network management product that exploits our product's set support for the deleteTCB value of tcpConnState.

Regards,

Kristine Adamson
IBM Communications Server for MVS: TCP/IP Development
Internet e-mail:adamson@us.ibm.com