Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 06, 2006 11:00 PM
Linux has solution on SYN flooding called SYN cookies (<a href="http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html" title="cr.yp.to">http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html</a cr.yp.to>) for some time now although not enabled by default.
To enable SYN cookies (provided that already activated on kernel compilation) simply apply this command at boot time after<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/proc has been mounted :
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 06, 2006 11:00 PMTo enable SYN cookies (provided that already activated on kernel compilation) simply apply this command at boot time after<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/proc has been mounted :
echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
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