Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 21 May 1996 11:27:29 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freebsd + synfloods + ip spoofing
Message-ID:  <9605211527.AA32609@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960521071719.19401A-100000@dazed.nol.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960520205423.709A-100000@apocalypse.superlink.net> <Pine.SOL.3.93.960521071719.19401A-100000@dazed.nol.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
<<On Tue, 21 May 1996 07:21:14 -0500 (CDT), "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net> said:

> For kicks some time ago I built a spoofer and I can tell you this much,
> creating at least a pseudo-random number generator for sequencing will stop
> a large # of the spoofers.

Which is why this was introduced in FreeBSD many months ago.

-GAWollman

--
Garrett A. Wollman   | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... 
wollman@lcs.mit.edu  | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance.
Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence.  We like people
MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish.  - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?9605211527.AA32609>