From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


:John Conover writes:
: > While were on the subject, does tcpserver have capabilities of dealing
: > effectively with SYN attacks?
:
:It's the kernel which is being attacked in a SYN attack.  Therefore,
:Dan's syncookies fix must be implemented in every kernel of interest.
:http://pobox.com/~djb/proto/syncookies.html

The Linux kernel has syn cookies, but they are not enabled by default in
2.2.  It's a config option.

--Adam

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