Re: T/TCP: Syn and RST Cookies

Dancer (dancer@brisnet.org.au)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:15:46 +1000


Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > I know the current spec for T/TCP has a lot of opposition, but for
> > research purposes, are there any more problems with it, besides SYN flood
> > attacks and rlogin authentication problems?
>
> I was under the impression RFC1644 had unsolved duplicate transaction problems
> too.
>
> Note: I don't know about Dave but I have no problem with T/TCP so long as its
> not on by default and when not configured in has 0 clocks of impact on the
> code. Oh and someone will maintain it *)

Agreed. But then, that's the basis we work under for most code.

D

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