netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 2/3] net: fix enforcing of fragment queue hash list depth

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Message-ID: <1366382568.16391.0.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:42:48 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 2/3] net: fix enforcing of fragment queue hash
 list depth

On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 14:19 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 03:11 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> > This strategy wont really help DDOS attacks. No frag will ever complete.
> 
> I beg to differ.

We already had a discussion on this topic.


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