Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 23:02:43 +0800 From: "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <map@iphil.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Monitoring the cause of Reboots Message-ID: <20000223230242.A2378@tirad.internal.iphil.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002230924080.622-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>; from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET on Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 09:26:24AM -0500 References: <20000223094559.A22180@tirad.internal.iphil.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002230924080.622-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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Hi, Thanks all for the tips. I couldn't find an explanation of what mbufs are, and how they relate to NMBCLUSTERS, in the Handbook... could I ask for an explanation? Thanks! ---m On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 09:26:24AM -0500, Matt Heckaman wrote: > Personally, I don't feel safe with this setting anything under 16,384 on a > T1 link, and 32,768 or greater on 10Mbit+ - Denial of service attacks can > cause these to be eaten VERY rapidly, the more bandwidth you have, the > more it eats away. > > Since I don't want a machien panicing during a dos attack on top of all > the other lovely problems, I set this very very high. Perhaps I'm giving > it overkill, but I've never had a machine panic from it again, so I'm > happy with the result. -- Miguel "Migs" A.L. Paraz http://www.iphil.net Coach + Technologist + Organizer IPhil Communications Network, Inc. 5/F 116 Herrera St., Legaspi Village, Makati City, Philippines +63-2-750-2288 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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