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SubjectRe: Firewalling and network resource consumption while under attack
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In message <199809211651.JAA01906@Midnight.Hacking.in.the.land.of.Kalifornia.
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m>, david writes:
+-----
| >The firewall drops packets incoming for IP as soon as its proved they are
| >valid IP headers and fed them to the firewall.
|
| Here's an idea. With the below discussion, would it make sense to
| regulate inbound packets so as not to consume 99.9% (those two connections
| stayed alive :) of the network stack? If inbound packet handling was only
+--->8

Why does this start to sound like another aspect of the SA_INTERRUPT / bh
discussion?

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electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university



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