[5033] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DoS, ICMP, proxies, SYNDefender
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Fri Oct 4 18:09:45 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: bass@linux.silkroad.com (Tim Bass)
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 17:59:32 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: freedman@netaxs.com, michael@memra.com, nanog@merit.edu, iepg@iepg.org
In-Reply-To: <199610042157.RAA02735@linux.silkroad.com> from "Tim Bass" at Oct 4, 96 05:57:42 pm
> Thanks for the pointers.
>
> I tried inet-access for about 1 day and never subscribed again.
> It is too noisy, IMO, for a distinct login :-)
>
> linux-net is quiet and the last patch or communique from Alan
> was a patch for 'slower' links, as Alan says himself.
>
> I like the 'no-data structures until the' three way handshake
> is complete idea that Jeff posted yesterday. Guess I can
> applied this to linux.... has anyone done this? If so,
> I would rather start testing a patch to save time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim
I'm quite sure I could take the code Jeff did and hack it so that
it could be applied to my vacuum cleaner if that was being SYN-
stormed...
Jeff's a SunOS/BSD bigot as well so I doubt he'll do anything
directly re: a linux port :)
Avi