netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/5] netfilter: SYNPROXY target v3

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Message-ID: <20130827140846.1df57a2d@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:08:46 +0200
From:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
To:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...u.dk>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, pablo@...filter.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	mph@....com, as@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] netfilter: SYNPROXY target v3


On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:35:56 +0200 (CEST) Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...u.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> > We did some extensive testing on Monday and it verified all retransmit
> > bugs have been fixed. With 1.4Mpps SYNs the load on a 16 way Xeon L6530
> > 2.13 Ghz machine was between 3% and 6%.
> 
> It was a Xeon L5630 ;-)
> 
> We tested both SYN and ACK flood-attacks, while running ab (Apache 
> Benchmark). The 1.4Mpps comes from limitations on the generator host 
> (which used trafgen).  We also did some short tests with a modified 
> pktgen.  And Martin wrote a test tool, that would delay conn 
> establishment, to test retransmits.  And Patritck tested in (simulated) 
> drop situations.
> 
[...]
> >
> > From my POV, these patches are ready for merging now.
> 
> Yes, Martin and Patrick (and I) have done some good testing of the module. 
> And we have flushed out and solved several bugs in this process.

Series:

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>

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  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
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  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
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