Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 00:55:18 +0100 From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net> To: William Carrel <william.carrel@infospace.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: path_mtu_discovery Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020105005135.01cf45a0@mail.drwilco.net> In-Reply-To: <C64F7C2E-0159-11D6-9ED7-003065B4E0E8@infospace.com> References: <3C36149B.B9C02DCF@mindspring.com>
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>I suppose we'll always get a couple hundred bytes in edgewise anyway, but
>it all makes for an interesting exercise. I wonder about the robustness
>of other operating systems to such an attack...
I think malicious people will point their ears at this line here ^^
Maybe make the minimum size a sysctl? Set default at the current number and
put it in a "how to make your FreeBSD more robust" document that this might
be raised to a higher number?
DocWilco
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