Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:51:43 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Jeffrey Ehrenkrantz <jehrenkrantz@whyy.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ouch perhaps we need an advertising committee! Message-ID: <199610151651.KAA18270@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:17:58 EDT." <199610151514.LAA17312@whyy.org> References: <199610151514.LAA17312@whyy.org>
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In message <199610151514.LAA17312@whyy.org> Jeffrey Ehrenkrantz writes: : This spirit of cooperation has yielded some surprising benefits : for Linux users. Linux became the first server platform with a : workable defense for SYN attacks, the hacker's trick of tying I don't think so. Linux didn't have this until after FreeBSD and OpenBSD at least. At least the -current versions of both of them vs the kernel release versions. However, we're quibbling over a couple of days. Linux was one of the first to be sure. Reminds me of the 10 press releases that I was saying that XXXX was the first router to have SYN Attack prevention... Warner
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