Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:47:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fxp if_fxp.c if_fxpvar.h Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040604174643.11973B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20040604210841.GL9228@elvis.mu.org>
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On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Maxime Henrion wrote: > > > dev.fxp0.int_delay: 1000 > > > dev.fxp0.bundle_max: 6 > > > dev.fxp0.rnr: 0 > > > dev.fxp0.noflow: 0 > > > > What are your thoughts about making noflow the default? Having an fxp > > machine panic and DoS an entire network is not friendly. > > I'm not opposed to that. I'd like to hear rwatson confirming this since > he's the one who implemented that sysctl, but I think it is fairly safe. I'm fine with it, but I've never had the opportunity to benchmark to what extent disabling flow control has on if_fxp. It would be probably be useful to do that first. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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