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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Paul Albrecht" <palbrecht@qwest.net>
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"netdev" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: question about linux tcp request queue handling
Date: 07 Jul 2003 23:48:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73fzliqa91.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001401c344df$ccbc63c0$6801a8c0@oemcomputer.suse.lists.linux.kernel>

"Paul Albrecht" <palbrecht@qwest.net> writes:

> This statement is inconsistent with the description of this scenario in
> Steven's TCP/IP Illustrated.  Specifically, continuing the handshake in the
> TCP layer, i.e., sending a syn/ack and moving to the syn_recd state, is
> incorrect if the limit of the server's socket backlog would be exceeded.
> How do you account for this discrepancy between linux and other
> berkeley-derived implementations?

The 4.4BSD-Lite code described in Stevens is long outdated. All modern
BSDs (and probably most other Unixes too) do it in a similar way to what 
Nivedita described. The keywords are "syn flood attack" and "DoS". 

-Andi

       reply	other threads:[~2003-07-07 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]         ` <001401c344df$ccbc63c0$6801a8c0@oemcomputer.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-07-07 21:48           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-07-07 22:25             ` question about linux tcp request queue handling Doug McNaught
2003-07-07 23:52               ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-08  0:17                 ` Doug McNaught
2003-07-08  0:25                   ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-08 14:09                   ` Horst von Brand
2003-07-08  4:14             ` Paul Albrecht
2003-07-08 19:23             ` Paul Albrecht
2003-07-06 21:19 Paul Albrecht
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-06 20:24 Nivedita Singhvi
2003-07-07  0:12 ` Paul Albrecht
2003-07-06 23:59   ` Nivedita Singhvi
2003-07-07  6:20     ` Paul Albrecht
2003-07-07  5:51       ` Nivedita Singhvi
2003-07-07  5:59         ` Nivedita Singhvi
2003-07-07 23:30         ` Paul Albrecht

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