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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 22:13:56 -0500
From: Ken Wills <kenwills@tds.net>
To: John Indra <john@office.naver.co.id>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: My network is dead because of this program :(
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* John Indra <john@office.naver.co.id> [010515 21:19]:
> Dear all...
> 
> First of all, really sorry for cross-posting...
> 
> I am running a -CURRENT system (Apr 30th 2001). There is a user in my
> machine running this small program to DoS my xl0 interface. I doubt that
> this program is specifically designed for xl cards though.
> 
> Once the program is started, it starts forking childs I assume. Then after
> sometime, this messages start popping to my screen:
> 
> xl0: no memory for rx lists -- packet dropped
> 

Shouldn't reasonable resource limits (man limits), prevent this from happening - particularly
the sbsize setting?

Ken

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