Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:49:28 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, gdonl@tsc.tdk.com (Don Lewis) Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stream.c worst-case kernel paths Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000121234647.01948870@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200001220639.WAA68014@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200001220624.WAA15869@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
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At 11:39 PM 1/21/2000 , Matthew Dillon wrote: > But he can't. We drop packets sent to multicast destinations and > any RST responses back to multicast sources will be rate-limited. OSPF > has its own protocol, it will ignore any TCP garbage on its multicast > address. Maybe. Or maybe the routers will do what the other boxes are doing: send one of several possible error responses (ICMP unreachable, etc.) BACK TO THE MULTICAST ADDRESS. I would not put it past them to have this misfeature. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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