[Codel] hardware multiqueue in fq_codel?

Eric Dumazet eric.dumazet at gmail.com
Fri Jul 12 12:54:17 EDT 2013


On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 18:36 +0200, Sebastian Moeller wrote:

> 
> 	Question, what stops the same attacker to also fudge the TOS bits (say to land in priority band 0)? Just asking...

This kind of thing is filtered before those packets arrive to the tx
queue where pfifo_fast is plugged ;)

TOS is properly checked/rewritten when alien packets enter your network.

People caring with this do their own classification using iptables or tc
filter rules.






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