Try -current[0]. I think henning will be glad to hear how his new toy
works in the field.

martijn@

[0] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=151796069324365&w=2

On 02/12/18 01:26, Martin Hanson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a home network that is segmented into 3 different zones using a NIC 
> with 4 ports sitting on an OpenBSD firewall/dhcp server. One port is 
> connected to the Internet (ISP router) and each of the three others has a 
> D-Link DGS-1005D switch connected to each.
> 
> So..
> 
> LAN1 = 192.168.1.0
> LAN2 = 192.168.2.0
> LAN3 = 192.168.3.0
> 
> Learning more about networking I wanted to test a SYN flood so I set up a 
> couple of boxes on LAN1 and LAN3 to flood a box on LAN2. I used "hping3" with 
> the "S" and "flood" options.
> 
> Running a regular ping in a terminal I could see how the response time 
> decreased and eventually the box began to loose packages.
> 
> However after a while it seemed like the entire internal network went down.
> 
> No box on any LAN could get an IP address from the DHCP server on the OpenBSD 
> box.
> 
> I eventually rebooted the OpenBSD box, but that didn't immediately help, and 
> only after powering down the switches and powering the switches on again, 
> everything worked again.
> 
> I have been looking through the PF documentation to see if PF somehow blocks 
> SYN flooding, but I am not using synproxy on any rules.
> 
> What could cause such a "melt down" of the entire network because of a SYN 
> flood to a box?
> 
> I suspect that the D-Link switches are pretty bad and maybe are the cause of 
> the problem?
> 
> I eventually will try again to see if I can determine what's causing the 
> "melt down", but I want to know if anyone perhaps has experienced similar 
> results during some testing?
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Martin 
> 

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