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Date:      Mon, 27 Dec 1999 22:06:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com>
To:        "Mr. K." <bsd@inbox.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic 
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.05.9912272203320.28737-100000@luna.lyris.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991227232526.22754C-100000@inbox.org>

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> 
> I was not root when this happened, so, basically, you're saying that
> freebsd is not meant for a production environment where untrusted users
> have telnet access?

As far as I can tell, yes. Until default per user mbuf limitations or some
such thing is in place no amount of mbufs will prevent intentionally bad
code from downing the machine. My understanding is that this was not a
problem in 2.x.


					-Kip




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