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Date:      Sat, 18 May 2002 15:47:43 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
Cc:        John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: ALTQ integration developer preview
Message-ID:  <3CE6DA0F.C4D8C289@mindspring.com>
References:  <200205181012.g4IACfe52918@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205181343360.10862-100000@scribble.fsn.hu>

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Attila Nagy wrote:
> > If the card on the receiving could not receive so many back to back
> > packets and looses one or more, nfs will get stuck retrying the same big
> > packet and the same thing happening over and over.
> 
> Yep, but that's not my case. If this would be the problem, I guess
> changing from gx to em wouldn't help me...

The really cool thing is that this means I can shout on the wire at
the right time, cause a collision, and effectively stace an undetectable
denial of service attack against your servers, by making it drop large
UDP datagrams IP frags.

Way to open yourself up to attack!

-- Terry

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