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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


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