From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: pablo@netfilter.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, mph@one.com, jesper.brouer@gmail.com,
as@one.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] netfilter: implement netfilter SYN proxy
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 22:59:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130807205959.GC21463@macbook.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1375898766.4004.37.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 11:06:06AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 19:42 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
> >
> > The SYNPROXY operates by marking the initial SYN from the client as UNTRACKED
> > and directing it to the SYNPROXY target. The target responds with a SYN/ACK
> > containing a cookie and encodes options such as window scaling factor, SACK
> > perm etc. into the timestamp, if timestamps are used (similar to TCP). The
> > window size is set to zero. The response is also sent as untracked packet.
>
> TCP timestamps are not really used, for various reasons ...
>
> Have you taken a look at
>
> <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2013-July/035999.html>
No, not yet, will have a look. Not sure what you mean by "TCP timestamps
are not really used" though. I might be biased by usually only looking at
Linux traffic, but I was under that impression that everyone is using
TCP timestamps nowadays?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-07 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-07 17:42 [PATCH RFC 0/5] netfilter: implement netfilter SYN proxy Patrick McHardy
2013-08-07 17:42 ` [PATCH 1/5] netfilter: nf_conntrack: make sequence number adjustments usuable without NAT Patrick McHardy
2013-08-07 20:02 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2013-08-07 17:42 ` [PATCH 2/5] net: syncookies: export cookie_v4_init_sequence/cookie_v4_check Patrick McHardy
2013-08-07 20:03 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2013-08-07 17:42 ` [PATCH 3/5] netfilter: add SYNPROXY core/target Patrick McHardy
2013-08-07 20:26 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2013-08-07 20:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2013-08-08 6:22 ` Patrick McHardy
2013-08-08 15:07 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2013-08-08 8:04 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2013-08-08 8:24 ` Patrick McHardy
2013-08-07 22:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-08-07 23:37 ` Patrick McHardy
2013-08-08 6:34 ` Patrick McHardy
2013-08-07 17:42 ` [PATCH 4/5] net: syncookies: export cookie_v6_init_sequence/cookie_v6_check Patrick McHardy
2013-08-07 20:27 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2013-08-07 17:42 ` [PATCH 5/5] netfilter: add IPv6 SYNPROXY target Patrick McHardy
2013-08-07 20:34 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2013-08-07 20:57 ` Patrick McHardy
2013-08-07 18:06 ` [PATCH RFC 0/5] netfilter: implement netfilter SYN proxy Eric Dumazet
2013-08-07 20:59 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2013-08-07 21:05 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-08-07 21:24 ` Patrick McHardy
2013-08-07 21:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-08-07 23:40 ` David Miller
2013-08-08 0:04 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-08-08 0:13 ` Patrick McHardy
2013-08-09 13:55 ` Neal Cardwell
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