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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:58:03 -0600 (CST)
From: Alex Nash <nash@Mcs.Net>
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au>
cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, guido@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_input.c
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On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Darren Reed wrote:

> In some mail I received from Bill Fenner, sie wrote
> [...]
> > However, there is a problem with the actual change: the "goto" bypasses
> > the strcpy() which gives log() something to print.  In addition, the whole
> > log(LOG_WARNING, ...) for each packet provides a wonderful denial of service
> > attack (I understand this isn't new with this commit, but it's still an
> > issue).
> 
> At least log() is used and you have a chance to redirect it via syslogd(?) to
> a file...if you relied on ipfw using printf, everything would go out via the
> console.

Kernel printf is sent to both the console and the logger.

Alex