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Date:      Mon, 22 May 2000 11:01:35 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options src/sys/i386/conf LINT src/sys/netinet ip_icmp.c 
Message-ID:  <200005221701.LAA96199@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 May 2000 09:47:42 PDT." <200005221647.JAA60817@apollo.backplane.com> 
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In message <200005221647.JAA60817@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes:
:     That said, I would rather see it as a kernel option (as it was committed)
:     rather then a sysctl variable, because I think a sysctl variable would
:     just be a waste of space.

Actually, I can see it as a valuable tool.  If I weren't under attack,
and then I was attacked, I'd want to turn off the messages as soon as
I was sure that I was under attack to prevent my log files filling up
too quickly.  Once the attack was over, or I had put other mitigation
proceedures in place, I'd want to turn it back on again to see when
the next attack comes.

Warner


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