On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Marco d'Itri <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 13, Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The upstream default is that they are disabled. The onus is on >> proponents to argue why this should be changed. > > The proposed rationale for the change is that SYN cookies are not used > until the SYN queue is full and at that point it is more useful to have > new TCP sessions without window scaling than no new TCP sessions at all. > Do you disagree?
It might be instructive to look at the upstream netdev list, I found a recentish thread about this topic: http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2009/10/16/74 Kinda a dissapointing thread, but it reveals a few points: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0807.3/0050.html http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2009/10/21/42 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/5/167 http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2009/10/21/70 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
