From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 23 12: 8:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from web13307.mail.yahoo.com (web13307.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DE6837B405 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:08:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sumirati@yahoo.de) Message-ID: <20010723190816.15888.qmail@web13307.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.174.9.99] by web13307.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:08:16 CEST Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:08:16 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?m=20p?= Subject: Re: login.conf To: fox@vl7.net Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hi, All! > I tried to configure my login.conf, so I have one question about parametr > "sbsize", what limititing is this parametr, what is recommended size of > socket buffer, what depend of this buffer? I checked man's but found > nothing about this :( > > Thank you. > > Best regards, > Vladimir. Taken from the handbook of 4.3-RELEASE, section 6.6 sbsize This is the limit on the amount of network memory, and thus mbufs, a user may consume. This originated as a response to an old DoS attack by creating a lot of sockets, but can be generally used to limit network communications. Hope this helps marc __________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message