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bad TCP change (was Re: sf_buf patch for review)


From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:30:19 -0800

  > Nobody port the network DOS attack patch that was just committed to
  > FreeBSD-5's ip_icmp.c.

I've already been asked privately about it and I replied that was a bad change.
That FreeBSD TCP patch is

	A.  A violation of the TCP protocol.
	B.  Confused about the context-switching cost of wakeups.
	C.  Protection for a non-existent problem.

								Jeffrey




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