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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] bridge: MAC learning uevents
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 08:15:25 -0700
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"D. Herrendoerfer" <d.herrendoerfer@herrendoerfer.name> writes:
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> I may be missing something here - I'm pretty sure there I am, but is
> there any conceptual
>
> reason why this should not be done this way ?

What happens if someone floods the network with random mac addresses?
Sounds like an easy way to do a DoS attack against your host?

-Andi