Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 22:23:10 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Local DoS in FreeBSD Message-ID: <4.1.19990901222200.04560100@granite.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <199909020205.TAA08666@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> References: <Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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>Do you enforce an mbuf limit block write()/send*() when the limit is >reached? What about packets received over the network, do they get >tossed? Do you kill the process with the most mbufs when a shortage >occurs ;-) How do other OSes handle it ? I recall in the original thread, that the user tried it out on LINUX, and it handled the code without incident. ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 01.519.651.3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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