TCP SYN attacks

Thu Oct 3 22:35:46 UTC 1996

Richard Stiennon writes:
> Check out the elegant solution just announced by Checkpoint:
> 
> http://www.checkpoint.com/fw21/syndefender/syndefender-white.html
> 
> This is a firewall solution. I like the psuedo-NAT done to adjust sequence
> number.

I'm not fond of this class of solution. I'll also point out that it
appears that kernel fixes almost completely alleviate the problem.

Perry