Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 19 Nov 1996 06:17:18 -0700 (MST) | From | Psychosis <> | Subject | SYN flood protection not working? |
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I'm using kernel 2.1.10... I tried syn flooding my telnet port, and it still froze up, sending it as few as 10 packets/second. It would seem to me that real syns are being dropped along with fake syns. How does the syn flood protection work? Are the oldest un-acked syns being dropped? It doesn't seem like this to me, because most real connections coming in fail.
I got lots of messages like this: Nov 19 08:12:39 fusion kernel: droping syn ack:10 max:10 Nov 19 08:12:39 fusion last message repeated 2 times Nov 19 08:12:39 fusion kernel: droping syn ack:10 max:10 Nov 19 08:12:41 fusion last message repeated 18 times Nov 19 08:12:41 fusion kernel: syn_ack rtx 1 Nov 19 08:12:41 fusion last message repeated 3 times Nov 19 08:12:41 fusion kernel: droping syn ack:10 max:10 Nov 19 08:12:42 fusion last message repeated 4 times Nov 19 08:12:42 fusion kernel: syn_ack rtx 1 Nov 19 08:12:42 fusion kernel: syn_ack rtx 1 Nov 19 08:12:42 fusion kernel: droping syn ack:10 max:10 Nov 19 08:12:46 fusion last message repeated 32 times
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