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From: "J. Bakshi" <joydeep@infoservices.in>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hot to design syn-flood protection based on ip ?
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:58:55 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9CBF27.1070600@infoservices.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A967DE2.2060601@infoservices.in>

J. Bakshi wrote:

Any clue ?


> Hello list,
>
> I have finally  come to know the bad effect of syn-flood protection.
>
> ``````````````````````
> iptables -N syn-flood
> iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE -p tcp --syn -j syn-flood
> iptables -A syn-flood -m limit --limit 1/s --limit-burst 4 -j RETURN
> iptables -A syn-flood -j DROP
> ```````````````````````````
>
> The codes above drops the packets blindly if a single host initiate a
> syn-flood and as a result other hosts can't get the ports.  Is there a
> way to modify the rules so it drop the packets from the host which is
> sending the syn-flood packets ?
>
> eagerly waiting for a response.
> Thanks
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-01  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-27 12:36 Hot to design syn-flood protection based on ip ? J. Bakshi
2009-09-01  6:28 ` J. Bakshi [this message]
2009-09-01  6:58   ` Marek Kierdelewicz
2009-09-01  7:38     ` J. Bakshi
2009-09-01  8:12       ` Marek Kierdelewicz
2009-09-01  8:50         ` J. Bakshi

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