Re: Syn proxy

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As with most public-facing hosts vulnerable to attack, a *NIX box used as a syn proxy is susceptible to resource 
exhaustion and will eventually crash or reboot. It is probably easier and more effective to use SYN cookies since the 
mechanism is stateless and the risk of exhausting system resources is lower than just using a bastion host to "absorb" 
half open SYNs...

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