Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      18 Jul 1999 12:38:39 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, nagao@iij.ad.jp (NAGAO Tadaaki), net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dummynet -> rate limiting
Message-ID:  <xzpbtdansy8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Garrett Wollman's message of "Sat, 17 Jul 1999 18:41:08 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <19990718034115X.nagao@iij.ad.jp> 	<199907171713.TAA16969@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199907172241.SAA24085@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> writes:
>                       It may be necessary to protect a part of the
> network with high per-packet costs from an attacker intent on denying
> service from that network or device -- think ping floods.

More to the point, think SYN floods.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?xzpbtdansy8.fsf>