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TCP friends

TCP friends

Posted Aug 16, 2012 23:04 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
In reply to: TCP friends by Kioob
Parent article: TCP friends

Only data transfer on a connected socket bypasses the full receive and transmit path. So you can still block connections. NATting of loopback connections might go horribly wrong though.


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