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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: freebsd + synfloods + ip spoofing 
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Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 20:51:49 +0000
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> <<On Tue, 21 May 1996 07:21:14 -0500 (CDT), "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net> sai
d:
> 
> > For kicks some time ago I built a spoofer and I can tell you this much,
> > creating at least a pseudo-random number generator for sequencing will stop
> > a large # of the spoofers.
> 
> Which is why this was introduced in FreeBSD many months ago.

Well, we don't use it for TCP yet do we ?

Mark ?

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