TCP RST handling in 6.0

Marc Olzheim marcolz at stack.nl
Tue Nov 8 12:46:06 PST 2005


On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:02:25AM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote:
> Thus, I'd like to suggest that the default for  
> net.inet.tcp.insecure_rst be zero for now. AFAIK, any other TCP mod  
> came disabled be default in the past, too.

Being on the wrong end of a distributed tcp syn flood attack atm. on the
machine I'm mailing from, is probably enough to convince me of its use.
:-)

I hardly notice anything on the machine, except for having to move the
sshd to ipv6 only...

Marc
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