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From: Michael Peddemors <michael@linuxmagic.com>
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To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, kernel@pineview.net
Subject: Re: No more DoS
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> 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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