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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 net-next] vxlan: virtual extensible lan
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:12:00 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:00:54 -0700

> On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:47:40 -0400 (EDT)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> 
>> But I wonder if this matters at all, the administrator controls
>> the contents of this table, rather than external entitites.
> 
> The table includes values learned from packets received. Like a bridge,
> a malicious attacker who can forge MAC sourc addresses can overload one
> chain by swamping the table with bogus values.  Probably needs a table limit.

Ok.