Re: SYN flood

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
11 Apr 1997 12:22:29 +0200


Andi Gutmans <andi@vipe.technion.ac.il> writes:
>
> In make config and make menuconfig I only got the
> CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES option and not the CONFIG_RST_COOKIES which is
> supposedly better.

RST cookies aren't entirely compatible. It seems that at least one major
nonoperating system has problems with them.

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