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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	timg@tpi.com, anton@samba.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
	linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH} ARP auto-sizing for 2.4.24 - 2.4.26-pre3
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:00:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040315220011.GC20830@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403152350260.6903-100000@netcore.fi>

> Isn't there a problem when an outside attacker brute-force pings every 
> IP address in some order?  The intent here is to overload the router 
> to do a lot of ARP/ND requests which result to nothing.

Note that the max number of active neighbours per interface is limited. There
is a natural limit on how many entries the hash tables can have.
The user can increase this with sysctls, but the defaults should be 
safe.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-15 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-14 19:10 [PATCH} ARP auto-sizing for 2.4.24 - 2.4.26-pre3 Tim Gardner
2004-03-15 21:44 ` David S. Miller
2004-03-15 21:55   ` Pekka Savola
2004-03-15 21:57     ` David S. Miller
2004-03-15 22:21       ` Pekka Savola
2004-03-15 22:00     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-03-16 16:05   ` Tim Gardner

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