[asterisk-dev] Rate limiting traffic to address potential DoS issues?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:30:04PM -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> A community member has communicated to me a couple of issues where if
> he sends large volumes of correctly-formatted (but otherwise invalid)
> packets at Asterisk channel drivers, Asterisk behaves quite poorly.
> In general it does not crash, but it will lose calls, respond very
> slowly, etc.

You're talking about thing like incoming SIP packets, Kevin?

Cheers,
-- jra
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