On Fri, 17 May 2002, Michal Melewski wrote:
> > May 17 23:03:11 ms2 kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 25. Sending > > cookies. > > Am I being syn flood attacked? How can I get rid of this? > Hello > In this case you are probably a target of a SYN Flood atack. > What you have to do is to compile your kernel with option with > protect_against_synflood (or something like this, but for sure in network > submenu). Make sure to read the help for this option because compiling it into > kernel isn't enough... (you have to issue a command > echo 1 > /don't/remember/where ;) ) It is activated... it's called cookies, as show above. For more informations, read this documentation: http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

