From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 4 15:46:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from artemis.drwilco.net (artemis.drwilco.net [209.167.6.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA95637B416 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:46:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ceres.drwilco.net (docwilco.xs4all.nl [213.84.68.230]) by artemis.drwilco.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g04NkOR75870 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified NO); Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:46:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from drwilco@drwilco.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020105005135.01cf45a0@mail.drwilco.net> X-Sender: lists@mail.drwilco.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 00:55:18 +0100 To: William Carrel , Terry Lambert From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Subject: Re: path_mtu_discovery Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3C36149B.B9C02DCF@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I suppose we'll always get a couple hundred bytes in edgewise anyway, but >it all makes for an interesting exercise. I wonder about the robustness >of other operating systems to such an attack... I think malicious people will point their ears at this line here ^^ Maybe make the minimum size a sysctl? Set default at the current number and put it in a "how to make your FreeBSD more robust" document that this might be raised to a higher number? DocWilco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message