On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:36:28PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> In a recent study my diploma students found that out of a dataset of
> 9 million TCP SYN in real life traffic (Sunsite Switzerland, five
> popular newspaper sites) approximatly 5% did not have the MSS option
> set. We did not manage
"Louis A. Mamakos" wrote:
>
> >
> > My goal is to create an ipfw rule that stops normal syn floods by blocking
> > ALL syn packets that have no MSS set.
> >
> > My understanding is that there is no legitimate packet that is a SYN and
> > has no MSS, and further, most of the kiddie tools in existen
>
> My goal is to create an ipfw rule that stops normal syn floods by blocking
> ALL syn packets that have no MSS set.
>
> My understanding is that there is no legitimate packet that is a SYN and
> has no MSS, and further, most of the kiddie tools in existence for syn
> flooding do indeed send sy
My goal is to create an ipfw rule that stops normal syn floods by blocking
ALL syn packets that have no MSS set.
My understanding is that there is no legitimate packet that is a SYN and
has no MSS, and further, most of the kiddie tools in existence for syn
flooding do indeed send syn packets with