non-developer question - SYN Floods

Wayne Pascoe (wayne@moneyworld.co.uk)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:25:58 +0100 (BST)


Hi...

This is a non-developer question, but I was wondering if there is anything
in the Linux kernel that would help us prevent SYN floods... I've compiled
SYN_Cookies, and /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies contains a 1. But
yesterday, our syn_recv's started climbing and the system was loggin
Possible syn-flood, sending cookies to the terminal. This didn't stop the
climbing synflood though...

Is there anything that can be done about this...

Thanks,

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