Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 19 Nov 1996 14:45:43 -0800 | From | Ricardo Kleemann <> | Subject | Re: SYN flood protection not working? |
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Is there a patch to apply? How do I protect my 2.0.x kernel from SYN floods?
On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > 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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