Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 13:26:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Shaver <shaver@neon.ingenia.ca> To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) Cc: firewalls@GreatCircle.COM, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, server-linux@netspace.org Subject: Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts (fwd) Message-ID: <199610141726.NAA20351@neon.ingenia.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.961011094343.20976X-100000@sidhe.memra.com> from "Michael Dillon" at Oct 11, 96 09:44:18 am
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Thus spake Michael Dillon: > window size > and any initial data is discarded; This, of course, breaks the TCP specification, in case anyone still cares about that. (Few do, I fear.) (I seem to recall someone saying that it made it impossible to talk to any machine that did T/TCP, as well.) Mike -- #> Mike Shaver (shaver@ingenia.com) Ingenia Communications Corporation #> Chief System Architect -- Head geek -- System exorcist #> #> "Have you considered a life? I hear they're quite affordable #> these days." --- shields@tembel.org
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