fixing opt-ack DoS against TCP stack

2007-01-09 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, recently, a few of us came up with a novel (or so we thought) DoS attack against TCP. We spent some time implementing and testing it and found it to work worryingly well. It turns out that we are not the first to come across this attack. Rob Sherwood and colleagues in Maryland were a year o

Re: fixing opt-ack DoS against TCP stack

2007-01-09 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:37:18 + Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > recently, a few of us came up with a novel (or so we thought) DoS attack > against TCP. We spent some time implementing and testing it and found it > to work worryingly well. > > It turns out that we are not