From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 11 14:30:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04708 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from heron.doc.ic.ac.uk (ISqFY5/yNq0mWxSu7sdxT/wY8Y2KUMAW@heron.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.46.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA04470 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:29:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk) Received: from oak71.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.46.71] ([O9/sdSAjHnq0A8ZuP0n2DnUCp0jQ10vd]) by heron.doc.ic.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.62 #3) id 0ykEui-0005yj-00; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 22:29:40 +0100 Received: from njs3 by oak71.doc.ic.ac.uk with local (Exim 1.62 #3) id 0ykEuh-0004oj-00; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 22:29:39 +0100 From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 22:29:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: Jamie Lawrence "Re: [Fwd: Secure Ping 1.0]" (Jun 11, 1:28pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Jamie Lawrence , njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart), jbryant@unix.tfs.net Subject: Re: [Fwd: Secure Ping 1.0] Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Jun 11, 1:28pm, Jamie Lawrence wrote: } Subject: Re: [Fwd: Secure Ping 1.0] > 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. :) Yes, resource limitation is no panacea, the main goal of the idea is for ISP's to ration bandwith among their customers, and secondly to stop these kind of idiots from doing too much damage before you boot them off. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message