FreeBSD, quagga (BGP) and 2950 VLANs

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Mon Sep 19 16:30:25 PDT 2005


Daniel Pocock wrote:
[ ... ]
> I'm also curious about whether FreeBSD supports polled rather than 
> interrupt driven behaviour in the NIC driver - that means that the 
> system won't keep on re-entering an interrupt handler concurrently while 
> under load (when a DoS attack is in progress).

Indeed it does, see "man polling".
Make sure you increase HZ to at least 1000...

-- 
-Chuck


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