From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 13 07:50:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA24500 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.gu.kiev.ua (whale.gu.kiev.ua [193.124.51.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA24158 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from creator.gu.kiev.ua (stesin@creator.gu.kiev.ua [193.124.51.73]) by whale.gu.kiev.ua (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA46792; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:28:52 +0300 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:28:51 +0300 (EET DST) From: Andrew Stesin X-Sender: stesin@creator.gu.kiev.ua To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" cc: firewalls@greatcircle.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SYN floods - possible solution? (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199609131352.GAA02501@MindBender.serv.net> Message-ID: X-NCC-RegID: ua.gu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, be it Alpha or Intel, the most interesting question lays in another area: would Panix pay someone (Darren ?) for the implementation of such a BSDaemonish "spoof-buff" device 8-) for them -- or not? The answer will have a direct consequence of -- will we see it working in reality or not? Otherwise the whole hardware discussion is pointless. BTW as I was pointed already, I overlooked at least one very important (but hopefully not critical) technical detail... Best, Andrew Stesin nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > A P6 should give you much better through-put than a 200MHz P5 (and it > still has room to grow). Not only that, but 200MHz P6s are cheaper [...]