netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Faster/parallel SYN handling to mitigate SYN floods

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2012 15:04:23 +0200
From:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Martin Topholm <mph@...h.dk>, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
	Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@...csson.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Faster/parallel SYN handling to mitigate SYN
 floods

On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 14:58 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 14:51 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 00:40 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > > That seems like a very unlikely situation, which we perhaps should
> > > neglect as we are under SYN attack.
> > >
> > > I will test the attack vector, if we instead of dropping the reqsk,
> > > fall back into the slow locked path.
> > 
> > I can provoke this attack vector, and performance is worse, if not
> > dropping the reqsk early.
> > 
> > Generator SYN flood at 750Kpps, sending false retransmits mixture.
> > 
> > - With early drop: 406 Kpps
> > - With return to locked processing: 251 Kpps
> > 
> > Its still better than the approx 150Kpps, without any patches.
> > 
> 
> How many different IP addresses are used by your generator ?

In this attack I reduced the IPs to 255, and also the source port
numbers, and then simply cloned some of the SKBs.  But normally I use
65535 IPs 198.18.0.0/16 (the range reserved for benchmarking).


> Or maybe you disabled IP route cache ?

Why do you think I have disabled the IP dst route cache?


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