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Re: SYN floods
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Speed Racer)
Mon Sep 2 21:32:58 1996
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 19:24:57 -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: <Pine.SUN.3.95.960831150726.4627A-100000@dns.bluesky.net>
On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Speed Racer 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 */
Sorry, didn't see the thing about sysctl. Ignore me and make it
configurable at runtime.
shag
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