From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 18:21:47 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4830316A468 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:21:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D29313C45D for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:21:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay7.apple.com (relay7.apple.com [17.128.113.37]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA0584F0ED; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:21:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay7.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay7.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 0268B304B8; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:21:47 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807125-9e761bb000000801-cb-46684cbaece7 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay7.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id DCC6A300AD; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:21:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <499c70c0706071118l6410dc5dqce32b86fd919de3@mail.gmail.com> References: <499c70c0706070210v39f7016hbd80e9780902e992@mail.gmail.com> <20070607093027.GA4784@heff.fud.org.nz> <499c70c0706070236x28d781e6yb8ba4c8ccd251372@mail.gmail.com> <29EFA5CA-6232-45AA-A10D-0A45BB3E2100@mac.com> <499c70c0706071118l6410dc5dqce32b86fd919de3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:21:46 -0700 To: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not remove polling(4) from 7.0? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:21:47 -0000 On Jun 7, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: [ ... ] > So it's recommended to use polling if I run pf and deals with DDoS? polling tends to handle a DDoS attack well compared with the default interrupt-driven approach. Whether you are using pf or some other firewall doesn't make any particular difference. -- -Chuck