2009/4/21 Theo de Raadt <[email protected]>:

> precognition means that we can identify an upcoming
> period when such packets will come in -- packets which would
> defragment and subsequently arrange themselves into an attack above
> the socket layer.  since we can precognitively pre-identify the risk,
> we can drop them right on the ethernet card and avoid even having them
> dma into memory!
>
> Well, we have only parts of this working in the tree.  A few pieces
> are still missing, but Austin is trying a prototype of the algoritms
> and heuristics in his shipping operation.

Do I feel a theo.c commit coming on?

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