SYN floods continue

Wed Sep 11 18:43:22 UTC 1996

If you can write a SYN flooder you can trivialy add the call to
to generate a random source address....

IMHO this is not a win.

Larry Plato
> 
> 
> I don't know, but since nobody else seems to either, how about a 
> router box that detects excessive SYN activity and then automatically 
> blocks that ip address for awhile?  I suppose it just means that
> the attacker has to vary the source address rapidly.
> 
> > Anyway. Point is this: We can't take too much more of this, nor can our
> > customers. I have yet to hear *anyone* come up with any ideas even remotely
> > reasonable for how to deal with this situation, long term, except for the
> 