[5036] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: TCP SYN attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ted Linnenkamp)
Fri Oct 4 19:01:02 1996
From: Ted Linnenkamp <tedlin@microsoft.com>
To: "'freedman@netaxs.com'" <freedman@netaxs.com>
Cc: "'iepg@iepg.org'" <iepg@iepg.org>, "'nanog@merit.edu'"
<nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 15:56:47 -0700
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>From: Tim Bass[SMTP:bass@linux.silkroad.com]
>Sent: Friday, October 04, 1996 7:58 AM
>To: freedman@netaxs.com
>Cc: nanog@merit.edu; iepg@iepg.org
>Subject: Re: TCP SYN attacks
>
>>
>> My preferred approach is to not even have to store state on any
>> of the embryonic connections. And to implement the fix on all
>> of my hosts. And customers can implement it in a firewall, if
>> they choose (and have boxes which can't be fixed: Win95, NT, Macs, ...).
>>
>> Avi
>>
Avi,
Did you mean to state that these boxes can't be fixed (hardened against
SYN attacks) by you?
Ted L.
My statements are my own and not of the Microsoft Corp.
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