netdev - Re: ipv6 issues after an DDoS for kernel 4.6.3

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Date:	Fri, 08 Jul 2016 17:40:10 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipv6 issues after an DDoS for kernel 4.6.3

On Fri, 2016-07-08 at 16:34 +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
> On 07/08/2016 04:14 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Are you sure conntrack is needed at all ?
> 
> Erm, I didn't mention conntrack - but yes, I do have in the firewall rules.
> 
> It is my understanding that conntrack is best practise, right ?

It depends what you want to protect ?

linux TCP stack should work quite well without conntrack.

If you are aware of any known defect, we should fix TCP stack instead of
working around by adding a very expensive framework.