Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 15:27:16 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: "Amit Kr.Jain" <amit@cdotb.ernet.in> To: "N. N.M" <madrapour@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing SYN-ACK queue Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.990802152529.6710F-100000@ws9.cdotb.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <19990802065001.91481.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hi!!
The size of connection queue can be specified as the second argument
of listen system call and the time out can be specified by using the
connect with a time out.
amit.
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On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, N. N.M wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> As I learned, the "increasing the size of the connection queue (SYN-ACK
> queue)" and also "decreasing the time-out waiting for 3-way handshaking" are
> necessary for a host to decrease the probabilty of DoS (Denial of Service)
> attack. Could anyone tell me how I can manipulate these two options in
> FreeBSD?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Nazila
>
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