From: Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: gandalf@wlug.westbo.se, Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se,
ralph+d@istop.com, hadi@shell.cyberus.ca, xerox@foonet.net,
fw@deneb.enyo.de, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Route cache performance tests
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:51:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030617205101.GD25773@netnation.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030617.133635.84366118.davem@redhat.com>
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:36:35PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> I have no idea why they do this, it's the stupidest thing
> you can possibly do by default.
>
> If we thought it was a good idea to turn this on by default
> we would have done so in the kernel.
>
> Does anyone have some cycles to spare to try and urge whoever is
> repsponsible for this in Debian to leave the kernel's default setting
> alone?
Sure, I can do this. But why is this stupid? It uses more CPU, but
stops IP spoofing by default. Specific firewall rules would have to be
created otherwise. And the overhead only really shows when the routing
table is large, right?
Simon-
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-17 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-10 7:57 Route cache performance tests Simon Kirby
2003-06-10 11:23 ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-10 20:36 ` CIT/Paul
2003-06-10 13:34 ` Ralph Doncaster
2003-06-10 13:39 ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-13 6:20 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-16 22:37 ` Simon Kirby
2003-06-16 22:44 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-16 23:09 ` Simon Kirby
2003-06-16 23:08 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-16 23:27 ` Simon Kirby
2003-06-16 23:49 ` Simon Kirby
2003-06-17 15:59 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-17 16:50 ` Robert Olsson
2003-06-17 16:50 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-17 17:29 ` Robert Olsson
2003-06-17 19:06 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-06-17 20:12 ` Robert Olsson
2003-06-17 20:07 ` Simon Kirby
2003-06-17 20:17 ` Martin Josefsson
2003-06-17 20:37 ` Simon Kirby
2003-06-17 20:36 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-17 20:51 ` Simon Kirby [this message]
2003-06-17 20:49 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-18 5:50 ` Pekka Savola
2003-06-17 20:49 ` Robert Olsson
2003-06-17 21:07 ` Simon Kirby
2003-06-17 22:50 ` Simon Kirby
2003-06-17 23:07 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-17 22:11 ` Ralph Doncaster
2003-06-17 22:08 ` David S. Miller
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