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From: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: avoid tx starvation by SYNACK packets
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 09:36:12 +0200
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On Thursday 31 May 2012 23:56:37 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> pfifo_fast being the default Qdisc, its pretty easy to fill it with
> SYNACK (small) packets while host is under SYNFLOOD attack.
> 
> Packets of established TCP sessions are dropped and host appears almost
> dead.
> 
> Avoid this problem assigning TC_PRIO_FILLER priority to SYNACK
> generated in SYNCOOKIE mode, so that these packets are enqueued into
> pfifo_fast band 2.
> 
> Other packets, queued to band 0 or 1 are dequeued before any SYNACK
> packets waiting in band 2.
> 
Thanks Eric,
the patch is in under test now.

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Regards
Hans Schillstrom