Re: Can a linux firewall protect against SYN flooding (and other attacks)?

[Steve Dodd]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 09:22:18PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2000-03-17T17:50:56,
>    "Christopher E. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> >     Sure, it protects you from SYN attacks, but it is a stateful
> > device, and evil.
> 
> Stateful filtering is generally considered a good thing.

But stateful routers aren't. Excuse me while I blunder around in your machine
room and trip over the power lead to your router <g>

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