|> From bugtraq-owner@fc.net Sun Oct 30 19:10:47 1994 |> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 04:07:27 -0800 (PST) |> From: Charles Howes <chowes@helix.net> |> To: Pat Myrto <rwing!pat@ole.cdac.com> |> cc: Tim Newsham <newsham@zang.kcc.hawaii.edu>, bugtraq@fc.net |> Subject: Re: udp packet storms |> MIME-Version: 1.0 |> |> On Sat, 29 Oct 1994, Pat Myrto wrote: |> |> <snip> |> |> > That's interesting - it amounts to a feedback loop (in electrical |> > or audio terminology). Is there a way to interrupt this sort of |> > thing (short of killing inetd or the involved daemon) or rebooting (a |> > drastic method of doing the same thing)? |> > |> > How would one prevent this without disabling the udp services? |> |> Hmm; I wonder if it's possible to tell tcpd to rate-limit a particular |> service? |> At One point IRIX, the SGi version of SYS Vr3, would shutdown the network traffic for a period of time, if it the number of errors or packets received in a time period was excessive.... thus stopping the SG becoming part of a network storm. Don't know of anything else that does allow rate limiting. Cheers Marc ? \!/ ? (o o) -------------------------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo----------------------------------- Marc Wilkinson ._ BIAS Consultants Ltd. +44 705 595276 o<o marc@bias.com Network Systems Consultant Dorking, England