From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: Enable syn cookies by default Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:01:41 +0200 Message-ID: <4AD8C315.3070106@gmail.com> References: <20091016085541.GA7393@ff.dom.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Olaf van der Spek , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com ([209.85.220.218]:60830 "EHLO mail-fx0-f218.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752247AbZJPTBr (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:01:47 -0400 Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so2774427fxm.37 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:01:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20091016085541.GA7393@ff.dom.local> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jarek Poplawski wrote, On 10/16/2009 10:55 AM: > On 15-10-2009 10:59, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm forwarding Debian feature request #520668. >>> >>> Could syn cookies be enabled by default? > > Hi, > > Alas, I can only give you a hint: while waiting for a better response, > you could try to 'google' for some archives of this list; AFAICR a few > (?) months ago David Miller explained this first question at least. > (In short: they aren't up-to-date enough.) It looks like my memory is exact only about dates ("?"! ;-). There was mainly David's opinion and some more in the thread (shared with lkml). Here is a link: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0807.3/0050.html Jarek P.