On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 05:42:21PM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > Does anyone use IPcomp and/or PPP-deflate? Would anyone be sad to see these > go? > > They seem pretty busted right now (e.g., no userspace support for > enabling IPcomp, and sys/net/zlib.c is broken on 64-bit arches), and > there's some doubt as to whether they're even worth the effort to fix.
I'm not sure if you were aware of http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Apr/0? In any case, it might be worth looking into. (A casual reading suggests that OpenBSD may use lots of memory to handle compressed-in-compressed packets.) Joachim -- PotD: www/p5-HTML-Template-JIT - just-in-time compiler for HTML::Template http://www.joachimschipper.nl/
