Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:27:07 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Networking with slow CPUs |
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:47:55AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 pjd@fred001.dynip.com wrote: > > > Robert Schwebel wrote: > > > > > > Is there a possibility to "harden" a small machine (33 MHz embedded > > > device) against e.g. flood pings from the outside world? > > > > It *is* bleeding edge, as someone else pointed out, but you should > > really investigate NAPI. It's designed to make Linux resiliant against > > non-flow-controlled network loads like routing, which sounds like > > just the ticket. > > There is rate limiting in recent iptables, as well. I don't regard > iptable as bleeding edge, so that may have a higher comfort level. >
Yes, but it won't keep the interrupts from all of those packets from overloading, and DoSing it or possibly crashing the system. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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