[PATCH] Configure.help: Bad URL for CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
18 Aug 2001 02:50:05 -0400


The provided URL for more information re SYN Cookies is bad. I
originally posted a patch to fix this in the 2.4-pre series but it was
not merged. I am reposting because I was in need of the URL and again
got stuck on the stale URL in Configure.help.

This is against Configure.help 2.41, as in 2.4.8-ac7.

--- linux/Documentation/Configure.help~ Sat Aug 18 02:32:33 2001
+++ linux/Documentation/Configure.help Sat Aug 18 02:35:32 2001
@@ -2655,8 +2655,7 @@
continue to connect, even when your machine is under attack. There
is no need for the legitimate users to change their TCP/IP software;
SYN cookies work transparently to them. For technical information
- about SYN cookies, check out
- <ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/syncookies.html>.
+ about SYN cookies, check out <http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html>.

If you are SYN flooded, the source address reported by the kernel is
likely to have been forged by the attacker; it is only reported as
@@ -2675,7 +2674,7 @@

at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted.

- If unsure, say Y.
+ If unsure, say N.

HCI EMU (virtual device) driver
CONFIG_BLUEZ_HCIEMU

-- 
Robert M. Love
rml at ufl.edu
rml at tech9.net

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