From owner-freebsd-security Wed May 31 12: 5:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BBB837BE9E for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 12:05:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 47391 invoked by uid 1000); 31 May 2000 19:05:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 May 2000 19:05:30 -0000 Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:05:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Visigoth Cc: Mitch Collinsworth , freebsd-security@freebsd.org, mkc@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu Subject: Re: icmp-response bandwidth limit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 31 May 2000, Visigoth wrote: > neither of which are usually nice. icmp-response bandwidth limiting is > built into the kernel to lessen the effects of a ping flood, and are often Actually, it doesn't rate limit icmp echos (yet). It rate limits RST packets and icmp port unreachables. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message