From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] tcp: Early SYN limit and SYN cookie handling to mitigate SYN floods Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 11:46:05 +0200 Message-ID: <1338371165.2760.133.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <20120528115102.12068.79994.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20120528115226.12068.31850.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <1338360073.2760.81.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1338363926.7747.55.camel@localhost> <1338365702.2760.112.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1338369863.7747.96.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andi Kleen , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Paasch , "David S. Miller" , Martin Topholm , Florian Westphal , Hans Schillstrom To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Return-path: Received: from mail-bk0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:47563 "EHLO mail-bk0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751138Ab2E3JqM (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2012 05:46:12 -0400 Received: by bkcji2 with SMTP id ji2so3914456bkc.19 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 02:46:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1338369863.7747.96.camel@localhost> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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)