Re: DoS prevention techquies.

["xbud" <xbud@g0thead.com>]

    If I remember correctly mc in has something to do with multicast
addresses, it might be to disable forwarding of mc addressed packets.  On my
system 2.4.4 it's already set to 0.
    To enable it or even write to it I believe you have to compile the
kernel with a CONFIG_MROUTE flag set somewhere.

If the values on your box are set to 0... let them be.  Unless you are
running a routed daemon and need to route mc addressed frames.

-xbud
-----Original Message-----
From: Vineet Kumar <debian-security@virtual.doorstop.net>
To: debian-security@lists.debian.org <debian-security@lists.debian.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: DoS prevention techquies.


* Stefan Srdic (linuxbox@telusplanet.net) [010716 21:01]:
<snip>
>
> What exactly do these paramters do, and should I be toying around with
> them?
>

Sorry for the smarmy repsonse, but the answer to the second question
is "at least not until you are able to answer the first question".

Too bad I can't help you answer the first question without doing some
reading myself... we'll see if somebody beats me to it.

Vineet