SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)

Sun Sep 15 02:06:35 UTC 1996

> (Whats needed, I think, is a cheap box that just does filtering.  If
> it did it in hardware, it could be very fast (needed for high speed
> lines) and possibly even cheap.

You would still need the software some where in the picture. The 
hardware in pretty useless without some type of software. Do you know 
something that I don't?

How do you store the filtering paramaters into the hardware? There is 
still software in the hardware,,,,

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