Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:44:20 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [net-next PATCH v2 0/3] Broadcast/Multicast rate limit via Ethtool Coalesce | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 12:44:07 +0530
> A system/cpu can be loaded by a hacker with flooding of broadcast or > multicast packets, to prevent this some Ethernet controllers like CPSW > provide a mechanism to limit the broadcast/multicast packet rate via > hardware limiters. This patch series enables this feature via > Ethtool Coalesce.
This is pretty bogus if you ask me.
What is the difference from accepting a high rate of unicast packets? I say it is no different.
Therefore, this feature makes no sense to me at all.
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