Re: [patch] tcp connection tracking 2.4.19

[Gianni Tedesco]

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On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 22:06, Roberto Nibali wrote:
> Welcome to the world of almost-stateful packet filtering. Hey, other=20
> than that, the 3wahas 'exploit' is old. Also don't I understand why they=20
> claim that SYN cookies prevent syn flooding. Next time you meet someone=20
> of the guys, tell them about the backlog queue.
>=20

"When syncookies are enabled the packets are still answered  and  this
value [tcp_max_syn_backlog] is effectively ignored." -- From tcp(7)
manpage.

The whole point of syncookies is to negate the need for a backlog queue.

Or did I miss your point?

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