Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Sep 1998 00:30:02 +0200 (CEST) | From | Torsten Landschoff <> | Subject | Re: Firewalling and network resource consumption while under attack |
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Hi Alan,
(first time I address such a famous person :-))
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> The buffer has to be copied to main memory and the header checksummed whatever > happens. On a packet that matches the firewall no further processing is done
Hmm, what lasts longer, matching against the firewall or calculating the checksum? If checksumming takes longer what about doing the firewall matching first?
cu Torsten
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