SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)

Mon Sep 9 19:30:45 UTC 1996

At 01:19 PM 9/9/96 -0500, Pat Calhoun wrote:
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>     Perry,
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>        This is actually quite simple to implement on Dial Access Routers, 
>     and obviously this is the best place to add the filtering. 

How much spare processor do a lot of the dial access servers have left on
them?  I am somewhat concerned about the amount of processor left on my dial
access servers.

Justin Newton
Internet Architect
Erol's Internet Services