[4341] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Re[2]: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Fri Sep 13 04:15:35 1996
To: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
cc: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>, nanog@merit.edu, neil@EASYNET.NET
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:44:10 BST."
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From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@EASYNET.NET>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@EASYNET.NET>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:13:48 +0100
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:44:10 +0100
"Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net> alleged:
> Don't forget Linux and the various BSD stuff. Quite a few people
> run modems with these as terminal servers. Certainly this
> would be trivial in Linux, from experience.
I think this could be prevented using ipf. I've been working on this
problem on the 4.4BSDlites for a while, it doesn't look like there
is an ideal solution for everyone but I have a few ideas.
Neil
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