[osol-discuss] SYN Cookies for Solaris 10

2007-08-11 Thread Mehdi Sarmadi
Dear All I'm just wondering if SynCookies are available for Solaris 10 and How to enable it. I looked through Solaris 10 books and Administrators guides but have found nothing yet. Or maybe other types of syn flood protections available for Solaris 10, and how to use/enable it? Regards --

Re: [osol-discuss] SYN Cookies for Solaris 10

2007-08-11 Thread Mehdi Sarmadi
So, how to control(enable/disable) SynFlood Protection? Im looking for administration tool/system variable or sth On 8/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just wondering if SynCookies are available for Solaris 10 and How to enable it. I looked through Solaris 10

Re: [osol-discuss] SYN Cookies for Solaris 10

2007-08-11 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 23:00 +0330, Mehdi Sarmadi wrote: I'm just wondering if SynCookies are available for Solaris 10 and How to enable it. syn cookies violate the TCP spec; specifically, they allow a single-packet loss during connection establishment to hang the connection for those protocols

Re: [osol-discuss] SYN Cookies for Solaris 10

2007-08-11 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 00:07 +0330, Mehdi Sarmadi wrote: So, how to control(enable/disable) SynFlood Protection? Im looking for administration tool/system variable or sth it's on by default. why would anyone want to run a system with syn-flood defenses disabled? (honest question. we

Re: [osol-discuss] SYN Cookies for Solaris 10

2007-08-11 Thread Mehdi Sarmadi
:D I don't know, maybe useful sometime. But, what I'm looking for is underlying things, for example how to know that feature is on or off and how to bring it back to work. How to monitor/How to enable again/and also what(which parts of the system) is responsible for such thing(I'm just curious)

Re: [osol-discuss] SYN Cookies for Solaris 10

2007-08-11 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
:D I don't know, maybe useful sometime. But, what I'm looking for is underlying things, for example how to know that feature is on or off and how to bring it back to work. How to monitor/How to enable again/and also what(which parts of the system) is responsible for such thing(I'm just