> How does syncookies prevent windows from growing? Enabling them doesn't.
> Most (if not all) distributions have them enabled and window growing > works just fine. Actually I do not see any reason why connection > establishment handshake should prevent any run-time operations at all, > even if it was setup during handshake. Syncookies are only triggered if the system is under a load where it would begin to lose connections otherwise. So they merely turn a DoS into a working if slightly slower setup (and > 64K windows don't matter for most normal users, especially on mobile devices). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
