From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <mailgate@mail.hometree.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 06:56:42 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9bgpfa$329$1@forge.intermeta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104152039130.1616-100000@asdf.capslock.lan> <01041708461209.00352@workshop> <20010416020732.30431.qmail@logi.cc> <20010416224321.O16697@corellia.laforge.distro.conectiva>
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> writes:
>On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:07:31PM +1000, Manfred Bartz wrote:
>> *COUNTERS MUST NOT BE RESETABLE!!!*
>>
>> Resetable counters guarantee that no two programs can co-exists if
>> they happen to reset the same counters.
>That sounds like crap (sorry). Counters are resettable, and will be.
>If you run two applications resetting counters individually, you have
>a problem with your applications.
Resettable counters in a security sensitive environment are just a
call for trouble. That's why you can't reset the SNMP counters on any
Cisco device I've encountered today. They learned their lesson. Maybe
you will, too.
Regards
Henning
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-17 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-16 21:53 IP Acounting Idea for 2.5 David Findlay
2001-04-16 0:21 ` Michael Clark
2001-04-16 0:40 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-04-16 22:46 ` David Findlay
2001-04-16 0:50 ` Mike A. Harris
2001-04-16 1:58 ` swds.mlowe
2001-04-16 1:24 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-04-16 2:07 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-04-16 9:43 ` Russell King
2001-04-16 22:24 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-04-17 10:29 ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-20 16:21 ` Counters [Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5] Harald Welte
2001-04-17 1:43 ` IP Acounting Idea for 2.5 Harald Welte
2001-04-17 2:37 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-04-17 6:56 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen [this message]
2001-04-20 16:17 ` Harald Welte
2001-04-20 21:00 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-04-16 11:21 ` Andreas Ferber
2001-04-16 2:40 ` Dax Kelson
2001-04-17 1:39 ` Harald Welte
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-16 22:35 Leif Sawyer
2001-04-16 23:42 ` Ian Stirling
2001-04-17 1:13 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-04-17 10:34 ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-16 23:52 Leif Sawyer
2001-04-17 12:28 Jesse Pollard
2001-04-17 16:57 Leif Sawyer
2001-04-17 18:31 Jesse Pollard
2001-04-17 19:09 Leif Sawyer
2001-04-17 19:37 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-04-18 13:49 ` Michael Clark
2001-04-17 22:32 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-04-17 21:25 Jesse Pollard
2001-04-17 21:48 Leif Sawyer
2001-04-17 22:58 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-04-17 23:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-17 23:35 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-04-18 0:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-20 2:51 ` Ton Hospel
2001-05-01 23:13 ` Mark van Walraven
2001-04-18 8:16 ` Kenneth Johansson
2001-04-18 14:45 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-04-17 23:06 Leif Sawyer
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