On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Of course we agree that such a "polling router/firewall" behaviour must
> > not be the default but it must be enabled on demand by the admin via
> > sysctl or whatever else userspace API. And I don't see any problem with
> > that.
>
> No I don't agree. "Stop random end users crashing my machine at will" is not
> a magic sysctl option - its a default.
I think (Ingo's?) analogy of an airbag was appropriate, if that's indeed
how the code winds up functioning.
Having a mechanism that prevents what would otherwise be a lockup is
useful. NAPI is useful. Having both would be nice :)
Jeff
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