TCP SYN attacks

Fri Oct 4 12:42:50 UTC 1996

Now what is 100,000 entries? With the timeout aggressively set at 10
secs (heck, with 10 secs I sometimes cannot even get all the images on
home.netscape.com) it's only 1000 SYNs/sec. How many hosts you want to
protect with such a firewall?

Dima

Avi Freedman writes:
> 
> If someone can hose a firewall with an adaptive SYN timeout and
> a 100,000 or more-entry state storage structure for pending SYNs
> (not that any particular implementation does this that I know of 
> or don't know of) then I *WANT* them to attack me.
> 
> Something that un-subtle should be eeasy to track back to the source.
> 
> > Tom E. Perrine (tep at SDSC.EDU) | San Diego Supercomputer Center 
> > http://www.sdsc.edu/~tep/     | Voice: +1.619.534.5000
> > "Ille Albus Canne Vinco Homines" - You Know Who
> 
> Avi
> 