Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Firewalling and network resource consumption while under attack | Date | Mon, 21 Sep 1998 20:45:39 +0100 (BST) |
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> I'm looking at discussing this in detail to come up with a solution so > that a linux box doesn't keel over totally blind even under heavy inbound SYN > attack. I'll do some studies of the network path and see if we can come > up with a novel solution that is viable for 2.3.
The buffer has to be copied to main memory and the header checksummed whatever happens. On a packet that matches the firewall no further processing is done
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