Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 15:47:43 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> Cc: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ALTQ integration developer preview Message-ID: <3CE6DA0F.C4D8C289@mindspring.com> References: <200205181012.g4IACfe52918@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205181343360.10862-100000@scribble.fsn.hu>
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Attila Nagy wrote: > > If the card on the receiving could not receive so many back to back > > packets and looses one or more, nfs will get stuck retrying the same big > > packet and the same thing happening over and over. > > Yep, but that's not my case. If this would be the problem, I guess > changing from gx to em wouldn't help me... The really cool thing is that this means I can shout on the wire at the right time, cause a collision, and effectively stace an undetectable denial of service attack against your servers, by making it drop large UDP datagrams IP frags. Way to open yourself up to attack! -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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