From: Mugunthan V N <mugunthan...@ti.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 12:44:07 +0530
> A system/cpu can be loaded by a hacker with flooding of broadcast or > multicast packets, to prevent this some Ethernet controllers like CPSW > provide a mechanism to limit the broadcast/multicast packet rate via > hardware limiters. This patch series enables this feature via > Ethtool Coalesce. This is pretty bogus if you ask me. What is the difference from accepting a high rate of unicast packets? I say it is no different. Therefore, this feature makes no sense to me at all. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
