Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] tcp: Early SYN limit and SYN cookie handling to mitigate SYN floods

Eric Dumazet
2012-05-30T09:46:12Z

On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 11:24 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:

> I don't dare to go into that battle with the network ninja, I surrender.
> DaveM, Eric's patches take precedence over mine...
>
> /me Crawing back into my cave, and switching to boring bugzilla cases of
> backporting kernel patches instead...
>

Hey, I only wanted to say that we were working on the same area and that
we should expect conflicts.

In the long term, we want a scalable listener solution, but I can
understand if some customers want an immediate solution (SYN flood
mitigation)