Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 20:15:47 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: stas@sonet.crimea.ua (Stas Kisel) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbuf shortage situations Message-ID: <199909091015.UAA02113@cheops.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199909090802.MAA16555@sonet.crimea.ua> from "Stas Kisel" at Sep 9, 99 12:02:45 pm
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In some mail from Stas Kisel, sie said: [...] > IMHO it is a good idea to develop tcp_drain() from /sys/netinet/tcp_subr.c > It should be quite intellectual to select a target - a process or a uid, > which does not read properly from it's sockets, and has many data in mbufs. The problem with this is the BSD TCP/IP implementation ACK's (or at least attempts to ACK) data as soon as it is received and it is a big no-no to discard queued data that has already been ACK'd. Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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