From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 14 10:23:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA12192 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neon.ingenia.com (neon.ingenia.com [205.207.219.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA12173 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from shaver@localhost) by neon.ingenia.com (8.8.Alpha.2/8.6.9) id NAA20351; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 13:26:23 -0400 From: Mike Shaver Message-Id: <199610141726.NAA20351@neon.ingenia.com> Subject: Re: Excellent host SYN-attack fix for BSD hosts (fwd) To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 13:26:23 -0400 (EDT) Cc: firewalls@GreatCircle.COM, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, server-linux@netspace.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael Dillon" at Oct 11, 96 09:44:18 am Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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