Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 10:30:23 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rate limit for system calls to prevent denial of service attacks? Message-ID: <199807090100.KAA20575@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jul 1998 10:33:28 %2B0200." <22965.899886808@verdi.nethelp.no>
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> Limiting CPU time per process or user is probably not sufficient, > unless you set it to absurdly small limits. It looks to me like we > need some sort of *rate limiting* for system calls. Anybody looked > at this? Hmm.. a neat idea :) I think this in conjunction with a decent sized process limit would be quite useful. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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