Re: [Qemu-devel] Feature request: option to disable protection in user mode networking

[Lionel Ulmer]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:57:11PM -0700, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> Why would you consider a "forward-all" option to be a DoS?

Because, as you explain later in your mail 'slirp [...] has to create a
listening socket [...] on every port.' which means that you won't be able to
start any application on the box which needs to listen to a port.

I agree that 'DoS' is maybe too big a word as 'listening' applications are
rare, but well, it would still be a pain in the ass to have all 65535
available ports taken by one application.

       Lionel

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