From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Caitlin Bestler <caitlin.bestler@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schiller <mschiller@tdt.de>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suppress / delay SYN-ACK
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:54:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <452EC7B9.2030801@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <469958e00610121458h45581840ke0367647a735c635@mail.gmail.com>
> More to the point, on what basis would the application be rejecting a
> connection request based solely on the SYN?
True, it isn't like there would suddenly be any call user data as in XTI/TLI.
> There are only two pieces of information available: the remote IP
> address and port, and the total number of pending requests. The
> latter is already addressed through the backlog size, and netfilter
> rules can already be used to reject based on IP address.
It would though allow an application to have an even more restricted set of
allowed IP's than was set in netfilter. Rather like allowing the application to
set socket buffer sizes rather than relying on the system's default.
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-12 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-12 8:08 Suppress / delay SYN-ACK Martin Schiller
2006-10-12 8:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-12 10:13 ` Martin Schiller
2006-10-12 10:31 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-12 10:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-12 10:53 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-12 10:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-12 16:13 ` Rick Jones
2006-10-12 21:58 ` Caitlin Bestler
2006-10-12 22:12 ` jamal
2006-10-12 22:54 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2006-10-13 0:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-13 4:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-13 16:39 ` Rick Jones
2006-10-13 20:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-13 21:50 ` Rick Jones
2006-10-16 6:52 ` Martin Schiller
2006-10-13 5:41 ` Stephen J. Bevan
2006-10-13 6:28 ` Martin Schiller
2006-10-16 7:02 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2006-10-17 12:04 ` Martin Schiller
2006-10-17 12:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-18 6:23 ` Martin Schiller
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