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Re: DoS - Problem

To: joern maier <joern.maier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: DoS - Problem
Cc: <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:17:57 +0000 (GMT)
        Hello,

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, joern maier wrote:

> >         May be you need to tune amemthresh. 1024 pages (4MB) are too
> > low value. What shows "free" under attack? You can try with 1/8 RAM size
> > for example. You know what is the main goal of these defense strategies:
> > to keep free memory in the director. Nothing more. They are activated
> > according to the free memory size. The packet rate is not considered.
> >

> that sounds all good to me, but what I´m really wondering about is, why
> has the drop_entry variable still a value of 1 => I thought it has to be
> 2 when
> my System is under attack ? To me it looks like LVS does not even think
> it´s under attack and therefore does not use the drop_entry mechanism

        You are right. You forgot to specify when the LVS to think it is
under attack.

        Read again my mail carefully. drop_entry switches automatically
from 1 to 2 when the free memory reaches amemthresh. Show us an evidence
that your free memory is below 4MB.

        int ip_vs_amem = nr_free_pages+page_cache_size+(buffermem>>PAGE_SHIFT);
        int nomem = (ip_vs_amem < sysctl_ip_vs_amemthresh);


        Read http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/defense.html
I just read it and I see that everything is explained.

> cheers,
>         Joern


Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>



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