Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:05:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:05:28 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:45072 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:05:19 -0400 Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 To: linux-kernel@alex.org.uk Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:10:44 +0100 (BST) Cc: mingo@elte.hu, hadi@cyberus.ca (jamal), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru (Alexey Kuznetsov), Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se (Robert Olsson), bcrl@redhat.com (Benjamin LaHaise), netdev@oss.sgi.com, torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), sim@netnation.com (Simon Kirby) In-Reply-To: <302737894.1002234496@[195.224.237.69]> from "Alex Bligh - linux-kernel" at Oct 04, 2001 10:28:17 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > In at least one environment known to me (router), I'd rather it > kept accepting packets, and f/w'ing them, and didn't switch VTs etc. > By dropping down performance, you've made the DoS attack even > more successful than it would otherwise have been (the kiddie > looks at effect on the host at the end). You only think that. After a few minutes the kiddie pulls down your routing because your route daemons execute no code. Also during the attack your sshd wont run so you cant log in to find out what is up - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/