Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-10,: Re: SYN flood = VFS: No free inodes - contact Linus?

# Re: SYN flood = VFS: No free inodes - contact Linus?

David S. Miller (davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com)
Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:39:38 -0800

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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:19:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Liem Bahneman <roland@cobaltgroup.com>

syn/rst cookies on

...

Any ideas what could be going on?

Firstly, I advise to turn off RST cookies, only the SYN cookies are
reliable. In fact there are some known flaws in the RST cookies.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

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