Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 13:28:40 -0700 From: Jamie Lawrence <jal@ThirdAge.com> To: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart), jbryant@unix.tfs.net Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Secure Ping 1.0] Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980611132840.00926c20@204.74.82.151> In-Reply-To: <E0ykDp6-0004bf-00@oak71.doc.ic.ac.uk> References: <Jim Bryant <jbryant@unix.tfs.net>
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At 09:19 PM 6/11/98 +0100, Niall Smart wrote: >Well, this exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about, except I make it >more flexible, for example it would nice to be able to specify "allow >8 megabytes outgoing traffic per day, a peak of 4 megabytes per hour, >and a limit of 2 megabytes per day to any given host except xyz.com". I don't think it would do much of anything to curb nasty practices on the net, except for limiting the relatively unsophisticated types who, say, use flood.c against spam sites and quake servers. Exactly the type of user I tend to use a rather more course grained resource limit on, and kick them off my system. These limits will probably only annoy legitimate users and make the weasels use more source routed attacks, WinGate style attacks, etc. -j To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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