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From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim.konovalov@gmail.com>
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Hi Randall,

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, 22:49-0000, Randall Stewart wrote:

> Author: rrs
> Date: Wed Jul 18 22:49:53 2018
> New Revision: 336465
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/336465
>
> Log:
>   Bump the ICMP echo limits to match the RFC
>
[...]

Just wonder, are there any practical reasons to do that?

While I don't see any meaningful vectors right now this could
potentially make amplification DoS easier, no?

-- 
Maxim Konovalov