Re: Can a linux firewall protect against SYN flooding (and otherattacks)?

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Christopher E. Brown wrote:

> A stateless router with stateful filtering is *better*.       (Linux 2.4.x)

Please excuse my ignorance here, but.. What the heck does that mean? How
does it work? Where can I readup on it (beyond the source, I've had my
fill of Linux networking code with the whole ARP on forign interfaces
thing)?

Does that mean I can put in two of them in differnt buildings, connecting
to differnt ISPs (multihomed), and let BGP manage incoming paths, and let
OSPF manage my output paths, and have links fail and the whole nine yards
that firewall-1 won't let me accomplish?


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