Re: What does FreeBSD do when listen queue is full ?

2002-04-14 Thread Yusuf Goolamabbas
> > There used to be two listen queues; one for completed connections and one > for incomplete connections. (Complete referring to the TCP three-way > handshake completing.) The syncache replaces the incomplete connection > queue, meaning that the listen queue depth is no longer relevant there.

Re: What does FreeBSD do when listen queue is full ?

2002-04-14 Thread Mike Silbersack
On 15 Apr 2002, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: > Subsequently, we changed the listen backlog to 128 via > DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA, Listen=128') > and turned ConnectionRateThrottle back on with a value of 20. Now, the > immediate reset is triggered but quite infrequently > > I thought that

Re: What does FreeBSD do when listen queue is full ?

2002-04-14 Thread Mike Silbersack
On 15 Apr 2002, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: > In 4.5-RELEASE, there seems to be no caller for sodropablereq, however > the function is declared in sys/sys/socketvar.h and defined in > sys/kern/uipc_socket2.c. Maybe it can be deleted from the source tree I'll go look into cleaning that up tomorrow.

What does FreeBSD do when listen queue is full ?

2002-04-14 Thread Yusuf Goolamabbas
We are using sendmail 8.11.6 patched to support mysql lookups. This is on FreeBSD 4.4-stable (cvsup'ed early December 2001) Recently my colleague turned on ConnectionRateThrottle and set it for a value of 20 Shortly he would observe that connections would get reset immediately after the client c

IPv6 configuration document?

2002-04-14 Thread Keiichi SHIMA / 島慶一
Hi, Does anyone know where is the document for configuring IPv6 on FreeBSD, if any? The NetBSD web page has a really cool manual (http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/ipv6/) for IPv6 people using NetBSD. I'm looking for such a document for FreBSD. --- Keiichi SHIMA IIJ Research Laborato

Re: patch -- An ingress filter (RFC2827)

2002-04-14 Thread Igor M Podlesny
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 06:52:43PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:25:27PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > Hi, > > this is more a comment on rfc2827 than on the patch (which seems to do > > basically what is in the RFC). > > This kind of filtering gives very lit

ntp problems; am i the only one?

2002-04-14 Thread Arno J. Klaassen
Hello, I did not pay much attention, but since a couple of weeks (the latest "daylight savings in Europe") mu ntp programs do not function anymore and host clocks drift further and further (both for machines I upgraded to -stable as for machines which have a couple a months old -stable ...).

Re: patch -- An ingress filter (RFC2827)

2002-04-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, this is more a comment on rfc2827 than on the patch (which seems to do basically what is in the RFC). This kind of filtering gives very little protection. For single-homed systems with a default route, basically the only packets that it can deny are those with a 127/8 source address on the wi

patch -- An ingress filter (RFC2827)

2002-04-14 Thread Igor M Podlesny
Hello! I'd like to know your opinion about this patch http://www.morning.ru/~poige/patchzone/ingressfiltering.patch which is mine attempt to implement an ingress filter being inspired by RFC2827 "Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Sp