Re: updates to syncookies - timestamps not needed any more (freebsd)

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 10:41 +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:

> The main difference to what linux does is to avoid encoding the 'count'
> value (Linux doesn't reseed secret[], and relies on count to detect old
> cookies).
> 
> Not having the counter frees up space to encode tcp options in the cookie
> instead of the timestamp.

But still wscale and sack options are disabled.

lpq83:~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps
lpq83:~# tcpdump -p -n -s 0 -i eth4

07:03:37.337563 IP 7.7.7.84.64131 > 7.7.7.83.22: S 1523884225:1523884225(0) win 29200 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 74412758 0,nop,wscale 6>
07:03:37.337588 IP 7.7.7.83.22 > 7.7.7.84.64131: S 572330188:572330188(0) ack 1523884226 win 29200 <mss 1460>
07:03:37.337647 IP 7.7.7.84.64131 > 7.7.7.83.22: . ack 1 win 29200


BTW, following patch allows to test more easily syncookies behavior.

If sysctl_tcp_syncookies is set to 2, we always use syncookies.

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index 35675e4..590659e 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -1462,7 +1462,8 @@ int tcp_v4_conn_request(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	 * limitations, they conserve resources and peer is
 	 * evidently real one.
 	 */
-	if (inet_csk_reqsk_queue_is_full(sk) && !isn) {
+	if ((sysctl_tcp_syncookies == 2 ||
+	     inet_csk_reqsk_queue_is_full(sk)) && !isn) {
 		want_cookie = tcp_syn_flood_action(sk, skb, "TCP");
 		if (!want_cookie)
 			goto drop;