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Re: SYN floods
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Speed Racer)
Sat Aug 31 15:24:17 1996
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 15:08:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Speed Racer <shagboy@dns.bluesky.net>
To: Eric Schenk <schenk@cs.toronto.edu>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <96Aug29.144753edt.15383@dvp.cs.toronto.edu>
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Eric Schenk wrote:
> I've been checking through the RFC's and it appears that we can use a
> seperate set of timeouts for the initial establishment of the connection,
> as opposed to timeouts for estalbished connections. Currently we only use
> a seperate timeout for connections initiated by the local box. Even then,
> this timeout is perhaps a bit long, somewhere around the 13 minute mark
> in 2.0.x. BSD uses a 75 second timeout for this, but this is perhaps
> a bit short, especially for on-demand links over a busy phone line.
How about we make it easy to change in a header file somewhere? It
doesn't have to be an option for "make config", just something like
#define SYN_TIMEOUT 600 /* timeout in seconds */
Would this be acceptable?
shag
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