Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

[Bogdan Costescu <bogdan.costescu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

> Don't such HA apps need to run as root anyways?

Not necessarily, but eventually you can let root (CAP_NET_ADMIN, anyway)
go through without any limitations, root can bring down the system at will
in other ways.

In addition, the rate limiting solution allows a warning to be issued when
the limit is exceeded, so that the poor sysadmin knows what hit him 8-)

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