netdev - Re: [PATCHv5 net-next] vxlan: virtual extensible lan

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Message-Id: <20120927.191200.1483743406607177228.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:12:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	jesse@...ira.com, chrisw@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 net-next] vxlan: virtual extensible lan

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:00:54 -0700

> On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:47:40 -0400 (EDT)
> David Miller <davem@...emloft.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.
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