TCP sinful cookies?

Jeff Mings jeffm at lava.net
Mon Jun 25 17:19:20 PDT 2001


Thanks, Donovan!

I _should_ have tried that myself.
Uh... the simple answer seems to be that SynCookies were added to the 
Linux kernel in 1997 to protect systems from Syn floods, but have to be 
turned on like forwarding.  Certainly a GOOD thing to include in a 
firewall script.

-Jeff

Donovan Chun wrote:

>Jeff Mings wrote:
>
>>
>>Can anyone give a quick summary of SynCookies?
>>
>A quick check on Google.com came up with this
>
>http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html
>
>Caution: this is the writting of Dan Bernstein.
>You may want to take a peek at other points of view.
>
>Donovan
>

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