Re: T/TCP: Syn and RST Cookies

David S. Miller (davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:56:16 -0700


From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Date: 13 Apr 1998 17:49:52 +0200

"David S. Miller" <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com> writes:

> We drop data in a SYN frame, relax pinhead.

We could make it a sysctl. For all usual cases it would be no
slowdown in the critical path, because that part is never hit
anyways by SYNs without data.

Nope, ain't gonna happen. Alan in his commentary was trying to hint
that allowing this to happen can open you to certain DoS attacks.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

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