Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 04 Oct 2001 22:28:17 +0100 | From | Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <> | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 |
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--On Wednesday, 03 October, 2001 4:51 PM +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> your refusal to accept this problem as an existing and real problem is > really puzzling me.
In at least one environment known to me (router), I'd rather it kept accepting packets, and f/w'ing them, and didn't switch VTs etc. By dropping down performance, you've made the DoS attack even more successful than it would otherwise have been (the kiddie looks at effect on the host at the end).
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