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Date:      Sun, 29 Feb 2004 01:28:46 -0500
From:      Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: em0, polling performance, P4 2.8ghz FSB 800mhz
Message-ID:  <4041869E.2070208@ai.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040229001251.Q11460@odysseus.silby.com>
References:  <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337045D8307@mail.sandvine.com> <20040229001251.Q11460@odysseus.silby.com>

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>>You could use ipfw to limit the damage of a syn flood, e.g.
>>a keep-state rule with a limit of ~2-5 per source IP, lower the
>>timeouts, increase the hash buckets in ipfw, etc. This would
>>use a mask on src-ip of all bits.
>>something like:
>>allow tcp from any to any setup limit src-addr 2
>>
>>this would only allow 2 concurrent TCP sessions per unique
>>source address. Depends on the syn flood you are expecting
>>to experience. You could also use dummynet to shape syn
>>traffic to a fixed level i suppose.
> 
> 
> Does that really help?  If so, we need to optimize the syncache. :(
>

I know that if I rate shape the setup traffic, it helps.

DJ



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