2001-11-06 22:14:40

by Sascha Andres

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Subject: SYN - Flood protection

hi,

i use found that in the bugtraq mailinglist:

'SuSE Security Announcement: kernel (update) (SuSE-SA:2001:039)'

i have several systems with tcp_syncookies turned on.
i turned this feature on because it makes really sense
on this systems. SuSE says one should use the rpms to update
the system. well i do not use the suse kernels, i use
the official kernel series from http://www.kernel.org.

so my question is now, how to fix this bug (?) in the
official release. is it fixed with 2.4.14?

sascha



2001-11-06 22:21:29

by David Miller

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Subject: Re: SYN - Flood protection

From: "Sascha Andres" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 23:15:21 +0100

is it fixed with 2.4.14?

Yes, and it is more correctly fixed than the SUSE changes.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
[email protected]