From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
To: Roberto Nibali <ratz@drugphish.ch>
Cc: Martin Renold <martinxyz@gmx.ch>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] tcp connection tracking 2.4.19
Date: 09 Oct 2002 13:30:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1034166655.30384.13.camel@lemsip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DA348EF.7060709@drugphish.ch>
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On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 22:06, Roberto Nibali wrote:
> Welcome to the world of almost-stateful packet filtering. Hey, other
> than that, the 3wahas 'exploit' is old. Also don't I understand why they
> claim that SYN cookies prevent syn flooding. Next time you meet someone
> of the guys, tell them about the backlog queue.
>
"When syncookies are enabled the packets are still answered and this
value [tcp_max_syn_backlog] is effectively ignored." -- From tcp(7)
manpage.
The whole point of syncookies is to negate the need for a backlog queue.
Or did I miss your point?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-09 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-08 20:50 [patch] tcp connection tracking 2.4.19 Martin Renold
2002-10-08 21:06 ` Roberto Nibali
2002-10-09 12:30 ` Gianni Tedesco [this message]
2002-10-09 17:25 ` Roberto Nibali
2002-10-10 10:38 ` Gianni Tedesco
2002-10-10 18:06 ` Roberto Nibali
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2002-10-16 7:48 Martin Renold
2002-10-16 22:46 ` Harald Welte
2002-10-17 20:29 ` Martin Renold
2002-10-17 8:26 ` Svenning Sorensen
2002-10-17 8:53 ` Martin Renold
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