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Date:      Sun, 9 Nov 2003 12:59:57 -0800
From:      Jonathan Mini <mini@freebsd.org>
To:        Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcp hostcache and ip fastforward for review
Message-ID:  <ACD9C291-12F7-11D8-87D8-000A95CD3CF8@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <3FAE68FB.64D262FF@pipeline.ch>
References:  <3FAE68FB.64D262FF@pipeline.ch>

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On Nov 9, 2003, at 8:19 AM, Andre Oppermann wrote:

>   - DoS attack 2: make MSS very low on local side of connection
>     and send maaaany small packet to remote host. For every packet
>     (eg. 2 bytes payload) a sowakeup is done to the listening
>     process. Consumes a lot of CPU there.
>

This sounds as if it might be worthwhile to add a delay to
the TF_NODELAY case for receive processing as well.

-- 
Jonathan Mini
mini@freebsd.org
http://www.freebsd.org



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