[ale] TCP_MD5

Chris Ricker chris.ricker at gmail.com
Fri Aug 9 08:09:41 EDT 2013


On 8/8/13 6:00 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
>
> In the kernel I have this enabled:
> CONFIG_TCP_MD5SIG=y
>
> It seems to me that this must be enabled for each application via the 
> setsockopt(2) using the TCP_MD5SIG option.  For the programs I have 
> installed I would need to modify them and recompile.
>
> Is this correct or is there a way to enable this on all TCP sockets?
>

That's correct. It's a per-connection option that can be set by the 
application once the support framework is present in the kernel


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