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From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@glacier.cold.org>
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Subject: SYN attacks
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I am basically without knowledge in regard to TCP protocols.  What I'm 
wondering is how succeptible FreeBSD is to the SYN flooding attacks like 
those that took down panix.com?  A patch to the linux kernel came out in 
the magazine '2600' which enabled one to do the SYN flooding, so I suspect 
its going to become more common.  Somebody mentioned a patch for BSD 
style kernels from Avi Freedman of NetAxs.com.

?

-Brandon Gillespie