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To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: netkill - generic remote DoS attack (fwd)
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From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
Date: 23 Apr 2000 17:49:34 +0200
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Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> Any idea what the default idle time before keepalives kick in is?

Is it really keep-alive that's interesting here?  Isn't it the
retransmission timer?

If somebody is doing "mbuf exhaustion", we will have un-acked
outstanding data.  And it should be the same case with "process
saturation".

/assar


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