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