[Techtalk] Re: kicking unwanted users off the network

[Tracey Clark]

The words below were brought to you by Carla Schroder->

> Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:
> > hey all, I remember once upon a time there was a simple way to
> > boot users off  the network, as long as you knew their IP address.
> > But I forgot, and my  google-fu is failing me- what ways are there
> > to punt off unwanted users?
(snip)
> That works fine, mwahaahaa. It's not the one I remember, though, which was
> a single command. I think I was a reading a TCP/IP book.  arrggh old
>memory arggh arggh

So I had to go looking to see if I could find how to do this.
My books are at home, so I tried Google-fu.
The command I think you're looking for is tcpkill.
http://tinyurl.com/ygfuqs


While searching I also found this open source tool which kills network
traffic you specify:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/cutting-the-tcpip-network-connection-with-cutter.html


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Tracey C
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