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Date:      30 May 2001 03:24:47 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        "Liran Dahan" <lirandb@netvision.net.il>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Syn+Fin (Setup) And TCP RST
Message-ID:  <xzpy9rftyqo.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <010f01c0e888$5ab3c120$b88f39d5@a>
References:  <010f01c0e888$5ab3c120$b88f39d5@a>

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"Liran Dahan" <lirandb@netvision.net.il> writes:
> I've added those 2 options in my kernel long time ago:
> options         TCP_DROP_SYNFIN         #drop TCP packets with SYN+FIN
> options         TCP_RESTRICT_RST        #restrict emission of TCP RST

They do nothing unless you also frob the accompanying sysctl variables.

> If my speculations are true... Why those kernel options are used for?

RTFM (rc.conf(5) in this case)

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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