Re: Curious: syncookies ready for distributed syn flooding?

From: Lars Marowsky-Bree (lmb@suse.de)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 08:29:24 EST


On 2000-06-10T22:09:01,
   Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:

> I'd actually be tempted to implement syn cookies on the firewall and do a
> proxy session, even if I did it purely kernel space.

This could be an add-on to NAT/masquerading, since we already track connection
status there anyway. (Meaning we don't open an additional channel to run our
firewall out of memory with state data, but only "beef up" an already existing
one)

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
    Development HA

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