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To: Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c 
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Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 22:26:22 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199805250350.UAA28700@freefall.freebsd.org> Steve Price writes:
:   Attempt to stop another DoS attack related to ping flooding.

I think that a better way to fix this is to fix it in the kernel, ala
OpenBSD's solution.  I have an experimental kernel that seems to solve
this for ping as well as others programs.

Warner

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