From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor•org>
To: "D. Herrendoerfer" <d.herrendoerfer@herrendoerfer•name>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] bridge: MAC learning uevents
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 08:15:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1ketoc2.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7824e091-6b1a-bf39-0f78-1c9084d59972@herrendoerfer.name> (D. Herrendoerfer's message of "Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:06:16 +0200")
"D. Herrendoerfer" <d.herrendoerfer@herrendoerfer•name> writes:
>
> I may be missing something here - I'm pretty sure there I am, but is
> there any conceptual
>
> reason why this should not be done this way ?
What happens if someone floods the network with random mac addresses?
Sounds like an easy way to do a DoS attack against your host?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-08 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-08 13:06 [RFC] bridge: MAC learning uevents D. Herrendoerfer
2016-09-08 15:15 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2016-09-08 17:23 ` D. Herrendoerfer
2016-09-08 15:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-09-08 17:19 ` D. Herrendoerfer
2016-09-08 18:30 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-09-08 21:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-09-09 8:51 ` D. Herrendoerfer
2016-09-09 23:54 ` Florian Fainelli
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