TCP RST handling in 6.0

Marc Olzheim marcolz at stack.nl
Tue Nov 8 14:09:50 PST 2005


On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:56:41PM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2005, at 12:46, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> >Being on the wrong end of a distributed tcp syn flood attack atm.  
> >on the
> >machine I'm mailing from, is probably enough to convince me of its  
> >use.
> 
> The change we are discussing is not protecting you from SYN floods,  
> it is supposed to protect you from spoofed RSTs.

Whoops, indeed, I misread. Well then, still glad to inform you that I'm
happy with the performance of the machine under a synflood attack :-P

Marc
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