is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.
This makes it possible to change the sysctl tree at runtime.
* Change KLD to find and register any sysctl nodes contained in the loaded
file and to unregister them when the file is unloaded.
Reviewed by: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>,
Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> (well they looked at it anyway)
option not defined the sysctl int value is set to -1 and read-only.
#ifdef KERNEL's added appropriately to wall off visibility of kernel
routines from user code.
Add ICMP_BANDLIM option and 'net.inet.icmp.icmplim' sysctl. If option
is specified in kernel config, icmplim defaults to 100 pps. Setting it
to 0 will disable the feature. This feature limits ICMP error responses
for packets sent to bad tcp or udp ports, which does a lot to help the
machine handle network D.O.S. attacks.
The kernel will report packet rates that exceed the limit at a rate of
one kernel printf per second. There is one issue in regards to the
'tail end' of an attack... the kernel will not output the last report
until some unrelated and valid icmp error packet is return at some
point after the attack is over. This is a minor reporting issue only.
potential problems with other automatic-reply ICMPs, but some of them may
depend on broadcast/multicast to operate. (This code can simply be
moved to the `reflect' label to generalize it.)
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
