Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: SYN flood protection not working? | Date | Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:24:50 +0000 (GMT) |
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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.
Unless you have modified your inetd to use long socket queues it won't make any odds.
Alan
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