Re: Syn flooding attacks

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry () piermont com>]

Jim Shankland writes:
> > I don't know of any routers that have these or other means of dealing with
> > the SYN attacks.
>
> We deal with them; see http://www.flyingfox.com/synflood_ann.html.

The easiest/best way to deal with SYN floods is to implement BSDI
style TCP compressed state. NetBSD now has it, too. The solution is
far from perfect, but it goes a long way.

Perry