SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)

Thu Sep 12 19:44:23 UTC 1996

> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?) 
> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:41:09 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com>
> 	[...]
> BTW, I would suggest that for a variety of applications, hardware
> assisted filtering boxes that simply take in IP one end and put out
> processed IP on the other end would be of use -- not just for this,
> but also for helping in doing packet traces through high traffic
> areas, for implementing firewalls, and for all sorts of other
> things. Vendors, are you listening?
> 	[...]

Network Systems has a box which does this for IP over ATM packets.  I
believe that it runs at full OC-3c (155 Mbps) speed.  It also potentially
does a bunch of other stuff to the IP packets.

It might make an interesting NANOG presentation, if it hasn't been done
already.

-tjs