On Apr 12, Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> wrote: > As much as I like unprivileged operation, I think this change may expand > privileges beyond what we expect. At present, ping limits an > unprivileged user to a minimum spacing of 2ms and prevents a flood ping. > Of course a user can just run multiple ping processes in parallel to > overcome this limitation. Real life DoS attacks from unpriviledged account are made with udp.pl and they are already quite damaging, so I do not believe that adding an ICMP option would make the situation worse. -- ciao, Marco
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