[Codel] hardware multiqueue in fq_codel?

Eric Dumazet eric.dumazet at gmail.com
Fri Jul 12 13:19:49 EDT 2013


On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 12:54 -0400, Dave Taht wrote:

> My point was that same program would be just as damaging against
> pfifo_fast.
> 
> > Or just think of SYN flood attack.
> 
> For which other defenses exist.

If someone uses pfifo_fast, it needs no particular protection right now
to be able to log in into his machine.

Thats the point you absolutely missed. Its kind of incredible.

If fq_codel could replace pfifo_fast as is, why do you think I did not
submit the patch doing the change ????






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