From: Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davidshan@tencent.com
Subject: [PATCH] tcp: doc : fix the syncookies default value
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:18:32 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C3FE48.2060804@gmail.com> (raw)
syncookies is on for default since in commit e994b7c901
(tcp: Don't make syn cookies initial setting depend on CONFIG_SYSCTL).
And fix a typo of CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES.
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com>
---
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 36e5a40..1074290 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -420,10 +420,10 @@ tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
- Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES
+ Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
- Default: FALSE
+ Default: 1
Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
--
1.7.1
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2013-06-21 7:18 Shan Wei [this message]
2013-06-24 7:26 ` [PATCH] tcp: doc : fix the syncookies default value David Miller
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