netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/3] path mtu hardening patches

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Message-ID: <20140113221504.GM6586@order.stressinduktion.org>
Date:	Mon, 13 Jan 2014 23:15:04 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	John Heffner <johnwheffner@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	steffen.klassert@...unet.com, fweimer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/3] path mtu hardening patches

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:03:56PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> I really don't like to depend on firewalling to do that. Especially on
> big routers one can use the routing table to protect interfaces for
> management and thus don't need to introduce stateful firewalling to
> realize a secure router setup which could cause performance degradation,
> especially with lots of small and shortlived flows (e.g. UDP/DNS).

This may get better if maybe some work is put into bringing this patch
forward: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/268758

Greetings,

  Hannes

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