On 11/04/12 02:07, Martin T wrote: > It's a well known fact that even most(with exceptions like ASR1K) of > the high-end Cisco or Juniper routers handle ICMP traffic in routing > engines not in ASIC's
Debian is software - so I can be relied on to never use ASICs ;-p <snipped> > How prioritized is ICMP handling in modern Linux 2.6 > and newer kernels? ICMP has the same priority as other protocols (by default). > Is it possible to prioritize ICMP handling in > kernel? Sure - assign a lower priority policy to other protocols. > > > regards, > martin > > If you want more detailed answer to specific situations debian-firewall "might" be a better list to ask. Note that Debian also provides a kfreeBSD kernel and HURD servers. Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Iceape/IE extensions for finding answers to questions about Debian:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
