Re: SYN floods continue

["Joseph T. Klein" <jtk () nap net>]

> I don't know, but since nobody else seems to either, how about a 
> router box that detects excessive SYN activity and then automatically 
> blocks that ip address for awhile?  I suppose it just means that
> the attacker has to vary the source address rapidly.
>
> > Anyway. Point is this: We can't take too much more of this, nor can our
> > customers. I have yet to hear *anyone* come up with any ideas even remotely
> > reasonable for how to deal with this situation, long term, except for the
If they modulate the phasers we just need to modulate the sheilds. :-O

If someone comes up with a good solution we will be glad to impliment it.
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