BTW for a while i was thinking what you were thinking... and i didnt see
too many problems with it, except when someone might have a fast enough
flood to make your queue wrap around before anyaone else could estblish a
connection...
Ive got some other networking questions, but I'll save em for a later
post.. :)
On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Chris Thornhill wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I seems the cool hackerish thing to these days is to flood someones
> port with spoofed SYN packets, disallowing any further connections
> to the port. Okay, fine. It seems to me that there is an easy
> solution to this (in theory). Forgive my lack of proper terminology
> here, but couldn't the tcp/ip stack be written so that if its connection
> table for a particular port fills, the next incoming SYN packet immediatly
> causes the oldest connection that is waiting for an ACK from it's SYNACK
> to time out?
>
> Just wanted to get a few peoples thoughts on the matter. :)
>
> - Chris
>
> P.S. Sorry about that run on sentence. :)
>