Re: TCP RST handling in 6.0

2005-11-08 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:56:41PM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote: > On Nov 8, 2005, at 12:46, Marc Olzheim wrote: > >Being on the wrong end of a distributed tcp syn flood attack atm. > >on the > >machine I'm mailing from, is probably enough to convince me of its > >use. > > The change we are discus

Re: TCP RST handling in 6.0

2005-11-08 Thread Lars Eggert
On Nov 8, 2005, at 12:46, Marc Olzheim wrote: Being on the wrong end of a distributed tcp syn flood attack atm. on the machine I'm mailing from, is probably enough to convince me of its use. The change we are discussing is not protecting you from SYN floods, it is supposed to protect you f

Re: TCP RST handling in 6.0

2005-11-08 Thread Lars Eggert
On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:54, Mathieu CHATEAU wrote: 1/it can be set back if needed It can be enabled, too, if needed. 2/95% of users will get benefits against 5% that will disable it I'd love to see a source for those numbers. 3/over the time, i am having above 70 lines in sysctl.conf to get

Re: TCP RST handling in 6.0

2005-11-08 Thread Lars Eggert
Hi, On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:23, Mike Silbersack wrote: I'm open to discussing the change. I plan to revisit that and the SYN causing a connection reset issue after eurobsdcon. good to know, thanks! However, I'm open to clubbing you over the head for not saying anything throughout the enti

Re: TCP RST handling in 6.0

2005-11-08 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:02:25AM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote: > Thus, I'd like to suggest that the default for > net.inet.tcp.insecure_rst be zero for now. AFAIK, any other TCP mod > came disabled be default in the past, too. Being on the wrong end of a distributed tcp syn flood attack atm. on

Re: TCP RST handling in 6.0

2005-11-08 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:02:25AM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote: > Hi, > > I came across the following in the release notes of 6.0 recently: > > "The RST handling of the FreeBSD TCP stack has been improved to make > reset attacks as difficult as possible while maintaining > compatibility with the

Re: TCP RST handling in 6.0

2005-11-08 Thread Mathieu CHATEAU
hello, to start with, i don't want to raise a troll... argue to keep it set: 1/it can be set back if needed 2/95% of users will get benefits against 5% that will disable it 3/over the time, i am having above 70 lines in sysctl.conf to get FreeBSD secured and the network strong and fast. 4/the 5%

Re: troubles with ng_fec on -current

2005-11-08 Thread Bill Paul
> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 23:55:39 +0200 > Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [..] > > > I know. Please try what's in CVS now (I made three revisions > > to ng_fec.c). I wonder, are you assigning an IP address to > > fec0 or doing "ifconfig fec0 up" before confuguring the > > bundle (addi

Re: TCP RST handling in 6.0

2005-11-08 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Lars Eggert wrote: Thus, I'd like to suggest that the default for net.inet.tcp.insecure_rst be zero for now. AFAIK, any other TCP mod came disabled be default in the past, too. Lars I'm open to discussing the change. I plan to revisit that and the SYN causing a connec

TCP RST handling in 6.0

2005-11-08 Thread Lars Eggert
Hi, I came across the following in the release notes of 6.0 recently: "The RST handling of the FreeBSD TCP stack has been improved to make reset attacks as difficult as possible while maintaining compatibility with the widest range of TCP stacks. (...) Note that this behavior technically v

Re: IPsec: panic/reboot with 5.4-STABLE

2005-11-08 Thread gnn
At Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:13:13 -0500, David Boyd wrote: > > Panics occur as often as every few hours (usually once or twice a day) on > eight identical systems used as VPN devices in hospital radiology appliance > maintenance network. System were upgraded to 5.4-STABLE because panic(s) > was followe

Conclusion of KAME

2005-11-08 Thread SUZUKI Shinsuke
(Apologize for possible duplicate messages) Dear all, This is an important announcement from the KAME project. I'm SUZUKI, Shinsuke, sending this message on behalf of the project. It is our pleasure to announce that the KAME project has achieved its project mission, which was to establish the I

Re: Freebsd 6.0 doesnt detect local APIC on a Pentium 3 machine

2005-11-08 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 07 November 2005 08:38 pm, Vaibhave Agarwal wrote: > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, John Baldwin wrote: > > And even then it can't be used for any device interrupts since there > > aren't any I/O APICs. On a UP machine without I/O APICs, it's actually > > probably more optimal to just use irq0 and

Re: troubles with ng_fec on -current

2005-11-08 Thread Marco Molteni
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 23:55:39 +0200 Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > I know. Please try what's in CVS now (I made three revisions > to ng_fec.c). I wonder, are you assigning an IP address to > fec0 or doing "ifconfig fec0 up" before confuguring the > bundle (adding ports)? I trie

IPMI highjacks packets to ports 623/664

2005-11-08 Thread Danny Braniss
problem: IPMI will highjack packets to ports 623/664, so packets which get assigned either port, will not get back to the application. Question: Is there a way to blacklist these ports? thanks, danny ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org