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From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
To: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
Cc: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Pavel Kankovsky <peak@argo.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv4: add ICMP socket kind
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:03:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101222110318.GA6224@albatros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101221213212.GA26006@openwall.com>

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 00:32 +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
> We use OpenVZ containers
> heavily, and we don't want to run an instance of such process per
> container (up to a few hundred per system).

Besides memory usage daemons cannot allocate reliably unique icmp echo
identifiers as they don't know anything about already assigned idents.


Thanks,

-- 
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments

      reply	other threads:[~2010-12-22 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-21 18:18 [RFC] ipv4: add ICMP socket kind Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-12-21 18:46 ` Colin Walters
2010-12-21 19:46   ` Solar Designer
2010-12-21 20:46     ` Colin Walters
2010-12-21 21:32       ` Solar Designer
2010-12-22 11:03         ` Vasiliy Kulikov [this message]

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