From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 3 15:31:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from oracle.dsuper.net (oracle.dsuper.net [205.205.255.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F6115366 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 15:31:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmilekic@dsuper.net) Received: from oracle.dsuper.net (oracle.dsuper.net [205.205.255.1]) by oracle.dsuper.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA22824; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 18:31:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 18:31:04 -0500 (EST) From: Bosko Milekic To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Denial of Service attacks In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19991203160626.01a658a0@staff.sentex.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Mike Tancsa wrote: !>At 01:04 PM 12/3/99 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: !>>you need a 3.3-stable or 4.0-current box, the login paramter is !>>'sbsize' !> !> !>Is this documented anywhere I dont see any reference to it in STABLE from !>today ? Also, the problem with rmuser for an ISP, is that its after the !>fact With 7,000 users, you have a potential for a lot of little kiddies !>trying out the latest scripts they got from IRC :-( !> !> ---Mike Actually, as far as I can tell, this is only valid for -CURRENT. It was implemented originally by green (Brian F.). On another note, I have some code that would perhaps indirectly influence the behavior of the system in the mbuf shortage situation. But this issue has been beaten up so many times on this mailing list and failure to review (commit?) the code seems to be leading me to give up on this area of the tree. So, if you're interested, here's the present URL to the most recent patch on what I've done so far: http://pages.infinit.net/bmilekic/mbuf.patch Later, Bosko. -- Bosko Milekic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message