netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL

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Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:52:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jheffner@....edu
Cc:	mhuth@...sta.com, dagriego@...il.com, davem@...emloft.ne,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL

From: John Heffner <jheffner@....edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:27:44 -0400

> As a concrete example of a way I've used this type of feature is to 
> defend against a netkill [1] style attack, where the defense involves 
> making decisions about which connections to kill when memory gets 
> scarce.  It makes sense to do this with a system daemon, since an admin 
> might have an arbitrarily complicated policy as to which applications 
> and peers have priority for the memory.  This is too complicated to 
> distribute and enforce across all applications.  You could do this in 
> the kernel, but why if you don't have to?

On the contrary this sounds like an excellent task for
a netfilter based solution.
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