* [PATCH] tcp: doc : fix the syncookies default value
@ 2013-06-21 7:18 Shan Wei
2013-06-24 7:26 ` David Miller
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Shan Wei @ 2013-06-21 7:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: davem, linux-doc, netdev; +Cc: davidshan
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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