Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 | Date | Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:16:32 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> (a) is not a major security issue. If you allow untrusted users full > 100/1000Mbps access to your internal network, you have _other_ > security issues, like packet sniffing etc that are much much MUCH > worse. So the packet flooding thing is very much a corner case, and > claiming that we have a big problem is silly.
Not nowdays. 100Mbit pipes to the backbone are routine for web serving in the real world - at least the paying end (aka porn).
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