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Date:      23 Apr 2000 17:49:34 +0200
From:      Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netkill - generic remote DoS attack (fwd)
Message-ID:  <5ln1mkom0h.fsf@assaris.sics.se>
In-Reply-To: Robert Watson's message of "Sat, 22 Apr 2000 14:24:23 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000422141140.857D-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> Any idea what the default idle time before keepalives kick in is?

Is it really keep-alive that's interesting here?  Isn't it the
retransmission timer?

If somebody is doing "mbuf exhaustion", we will have un-acked
outstanding data.  And it should be the same case with "process
saturation".

/assar


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