Markus Wild wrote:
> 
> > Next use either connection limiting features (such as FreeBSD ipfw2)
> 
> Just one word of caution on this one: I've had this activated on
> our mail server (IPFW2 in 4.x-STABLE) a couple of months ago, and
> it lead to very odd memory corruption issues (panics that _all_
> looked like hardware problems, like bogus memory, cpus, etc. Panics
> traced within the filesystem, traps, whatever, but never within
> firewall or just generally, networking  code). It took me quite a while
> to figure out where these were coming from (after much hardware
> replaced...). Don't know whether this bug has been found/fixed,
> looked very hard to locate.

It has been fixed in 4.9-RELEASE and 5.1-CURRENT.

-- 
Andre
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