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Date:      Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:47:10 +1000 (EST)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To:        wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: socket buffer limits (was: Re: FW: Local DoS in FreeBSD)
Message-ID:  <199909020347.NAA23859@cheops.anu.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199909020335.XAA08433@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Sep 1, 99 11:35:05 pm

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How about failing setsockopt's when they try to increase buffer space
if it would mean buffer space commitments would exceed a high water mark ?

Also, what if mbufs are dropped and/or send/write fails (ENOBUFS) if there
is nobody waiting to receive data and a high water mark has been reached ?

Darren


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