When this happens, we know for sure that the packet data was not
received by the peer. Therefore, back out any advancing of the
transmit sequence number so that we send the same data the next
time we transmit a packet, avoiding a guaranteed missed packet and
its resulting TCP transmit slowdown.
In most systems ip_output() probably never returns an error, and
so this problem is never seen. However, it is more likely to occur
with device drivers having short output queues (causing ENOBUFS to
be returned when they are full), not to mention low memory situations.
Moreover, because of this problem writers of slow devices were
required to make an unfortunate choice between (a) having a relatively
short output queue (with low latency but low TCP bandwidth because
of this problem) or (b) a long output queue (with high latency and
high TCP bandwidth). In my particular application (ISDN) it took
an output queue equal to ~5 seconds of transmission to avoid ENOBUFS.
A more reasonable output queue of 0.5 seconds resulted in only about
50% TCP throughput. With this patch full throughput was restored in
the latter case.
Reviewed by: freebsd-net
delete the cloned route that is associated with the connection.
This does not exhaust the routing table memory when the system
is under a SYN flood attack. The route entry is not deleted if there
is any prior information cached in it.
Reviewed by: Peter Wemm,asmodai
reply if the requesting machine isn't on the interface we believe
it should be. Prevents arp wars when you plug cables in the wrong
way around.
PR: 9848
Submitted by: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Not objected to by: wollman
- Multiple PPTP clients behind NAT to the same or different servers.
- Single PPTP server behind NAT -- you just need to redirect TCP
port 1723 to a local machine. Multiple servers behind NAT is
possible but would require a simple API change.
- No API changes!
For more information on how this works see comments at the start of
the alias_pptp.c.
PacketAliasPptp() is no longer necessary and will be removed soon.
Submitted by: Erik Salander <erik@whistle.com>
Reviewed by: ru
Rewritten by: ru
Reviewed by: Erik Salander <erik@whistle.com>
accept filters are now loadable as well as able to be compiled into
the kernel.
two accept filters are provided, one that returns sockets when data
arrives the other when an http request is completed (doesn't work
with 0.9 requests)
Reviewed by: jmg
It does mean that it is now possible to run passive-mode FTP
server behind NAT.
- SECURITY: FTP aliasing engine now ensures that:
o the segment preceding a PORT/227 segment terminates with a \r\n;
o the IP address in the PORT/227 matches the source IP address of
the packet;
o the port number in the PORT command or 277 reply is greater than
or equal to 1024.
Submitted by: Erik Salander <erik@whistle.com>
Reviewed by: ru
It also squashes 99% of packet kiddie synflood orgies. For example, to
rate syn packets without MSS,
ipfw pipe 10 config 56Kbit/s queue 10Packets
ipfw add pipe 10 tcp from any to any in setup tcpoptions !mss
Submitted by: Richard A. Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
a mbuf, it may return without setting any timers. If no more data is
scheduled to be transmitted (this was a FIN) the system will sit in
LAST_ACK state forever.
Thus, when mbuf allocation fails, set the retransmit timer if neither
the retransmit or persist timer is already pending.
Problem discovered by: Mike Silbersack (silby@silby.com)
Pushed for a fix by: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net>
Reviewed by: jayanth
