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From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
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Subject: Re: SYN attacks
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On Tuesday 06 April 2004 12:01 pm, Spades wrote:
> Heya,
>
> FREEBSD 4.9-STABLE
>
> Is there anyway to block SYN attacks and prevent it from bring down
> my server?
>
> Its been attacking for sometime.

Checkout the link below.  There's a series of articles regarding firewalls in 
FreeBSD:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould