From: Michael Peddemors <michael@linuxmagic.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, kernel@pineview.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: No more DoS
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:20:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0012212020061G.24471@mistress> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <977453684.3a42c2744fbb7@ppro.pineview.net> <200012220200.SAA05057@pizda.ninka.net>
In-Reply-To: <200012220200.SAA05057@pizda.ninka.net>
> Furthermore, it also cannot work because it makes retransmissions
> of the SYN/ACK very non-workable. I suppose his TCP stack just hacks
> around this by just waiting for the original client SYN to get
> retransmitted or something like this. I question whether that can
> even work reliably.
Be interesting to see his response, but in truth, do we care if it gets
retransmitted?? When it does, it does...
> I think not holding onto any state for an incoming SYN is nothing but
> a dream in any serious modern TCP implementation. It can be reduced,
> but not eliminated. The former is what most modern stacks have done
> to fight these problems.
A dream, maybe .... but hey so were most things that we now take for granted..
Worth kicking around a bit tho...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-22 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-22 2:24 No more DoS Mike OConnor
2000-12-22 2:00 ` David S. Miller
2000-12-22 4:20 ` Michael Peddemors [this message]
2000-12-22 4:53 ` David S. Miller
2000-12-22 2:36 ` Tom Vier
2000-12-22 4:09 ` Michael Peddemors
2000-12-22 4:55 ` Michael H. Warfield
2000-12-22 18:21 ` kuznet
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