Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : > > Easy depriorizing is possible by outright dropping incoming ICMP packets > > in the iptables layer, before it is processed by the IP stack. > > iptables is not before the IP stack, it is a part of it. I suppos

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : > > Easy depriorizing is possible by outright dropping incoming ICMP packets > in the iptables layer, before it is processed by the IP stack. iptables is not before the IP stack, it is a part of it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 21:42 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 21:10 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Martin T wrote: > > > > It's a well known fact that even most(with exceptions

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 21:10 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Martin T wrote: > > > It's a well known fact that even most(with exceptions like ASR1K) of > > > the high-end Cisco or Juniper routers handle ICMP traffi

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/04/12 02:07, Martin T wrote: > It's a well known fact that even most(with exceptions like ASR1K) of > the high-end Cisco or Juniper routers handle ICMP traffic in routing > engines not in ASIC's Debian is software - so I can be relied on to never use ASICs ;-p > How prioritized is ICMP ha

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 21:10 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Martin T wrote: > > It's a well known fact that even most(with exceptions like ASR1K) of > > the high-end Cisco or Juniper routers handle ICMP traffic in routing > > engines not in ASIC's which means that t

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Martin T wrote: > It's a well known fact that even most(with exceptions like ASR1K) of > the high-end Cisco or Juniper routers handle ICMP traffic in routing > engines not in ASIC's which means that they share the CPU time with > other processes. How prioritized is ICMP handlin