Max. limit reached -> box unusable
David Ford
david@kalifornia.com
Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:32:29 -0700
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Well Rusty... :)
I, being the only one with GRE tunneling, and with sound mind and body...
...it doesn't work. Once it fills up, printks flood the console and
logs and new connections fail completely. ICMP doesn't even work.
test5 is out, does it have this patch in it? I'll try it again as soon
as I get a spare millisecond.
-d
Rusty Russell wrote:
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> In message <20000725130923.5277.qmail@oknodo.bof.de> you write:
> > > If the kernel's table is too full to add to the conn track table,
> > > it should go "oh well" and continue on instead of completely
> > > breaking the network.
>
> It does, modulo any bugs. The overload code (with the syn flood
> patch) seems to work quite well.
>
> Rusty.
> --
> Hacking time.
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I, being the only one with GRE tunneling, and with sound mind and body...<br>
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...it doesn't work. Once it fills up, printks flood the console and logs
and new connections fail completely. ICMP doesn't even work.<br>
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test5 is out, does it have this patch in it? I'll try it again as soon as I get a spare millisecond.<br>
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-d<br>
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Rusty Russell wrote:<br>
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<div class="text-plain"><pre wrap>In message <a class="txt-link txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:20000725130923.5277.qmail@oknodo.bof.de"><20000725130923.5277.qmail@oknodo.bof.de></a> you write:
> > If the kernel's table is too full to add to the conn track table,
> > it should go "oh well" and continue on instead of completely
> > breaking the network.
It does, modulo any bugs. The overload code (with the syn flood
patch) seems to work quite well.
Rusty.
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Hacking time.
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