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Date:      Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:22:18 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        davidk@accretivetg.com
Cc:        brett@lariat.org, security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Defense against 'Code Rainbow'
Message-ID:  <44071.10.177.173.21.1000923738.squirrel@proton.centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010919101020.B85958-100000@localhost>
References:  <20010919101020.B85958-100000@localhost>

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Is it possible to do a hash table lookup kind of thing?  I think a list of
about 10,000 would be fast even on a hash table. 

Eric


> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Brett Glass wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately, there was a serious problem with this approach. The BSD
>> TCP/IP stack apparently does not expect its routing table to be very
>> big, and so scans it linearly.
> 
> Something I've wanted to implement but haven't because I'm not really
> knowledgable enough is a sysctl that would enable/disable dynamic route
> creation. It's so rare that any one of these /32 routes the server
> creates will ever be different than any of the others that it's just a
> waste of resources for the system to track them. Those that want to
> route with their BSD box would leave dynamic routes enabled.
> 
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