Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 23:09:48 +0100 From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> To: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@netlab.nec.de> Cc: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP RST handling in 6.0 Message-ID: <20051108220948.GA2602@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <280E31B0-BA54-404A-8CD4-2EF64F767B9A@netlab.nec.de> References: <E019841F-389F-4B15-942E-F30F6745ECBF@netlab.nec.de> <20051108204603.GA2121@stack.nl> <280E31B0-BA54-404A-8CD4-2EF64F767B9A@netlab.nec.de>
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--sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:56:41PM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote: > On Nov 8, 2005, at 12:46, Marc Olzheim wrote: > >Being on the wrong end of a distributed tcp syn flood attack atm. =20 > >on the > >machine I'm mailing from, is probably enough to convince me of its =20 > >use. >=20 > The change we are discussing is not protecting you from SYN floods, =20 > it is supposed to protect you from spoofed RSTs. Whoops, indeed, I misread. Well then, still glad to inform you that I'm happy with the performance of the machine under a synflood attack :-P Marc --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDcSIsezjnobFOgrERAuyaAJ99FFZ5VGYl0RIDr502qXYbH3nUjgCgi2IV ph1xL/8GVJPs33RCnrO77wc= =DuhM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu--
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