How to kill a single TCP connection in Linux?

Question

I have a process that opens several tcp connections to several browsers on separate ports.

Using netsat the output is something like this :

tcp 0 0 server1.something:myprog client1.something:49987 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 server1.something:myprog client1.something:65987 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 server1.something:myprog client1.something:89987 ESTABLISHED

Now i would like to kill exactly one of the connections? How do i do it? (Since killing the process will kill all connections)

Answer 1

Here are some options:

• Attach with gdb and call close() on the fd. You can map from addr/port to inode number via /proc/net/tcp and from inode number to FD inside the process with ls -la /proc/$pid/fd.
• Spoof a RST packet. You'll need to generate it locally and guess the SEQ number somehow.
• Maybe setup an iptables rule to generate a RST on the next packet.
• Write a kernel module.

There doesn't seem to be a well supported way to do this. It is likely that processes will crash if their FDs are unexpectedly closed anyway.