Re: Pri/Alt hosts (again) (fwd)

Robert Hanson (roberth@cet.com)
Thu, 19 Sep 1996 20:19:04 -0700 (PDT)

has anyone tested portmasters against SYN packet denial of service
attacks?

ive seen it affect "insert generic machine here" types of processing
hardwares....

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On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, MegaZone wrote:

> Once upon a time Jason Marshall shaped the electrons to say...
> >Which brings up an interesting question, which would be: Are there any
> >plans to make the timeout period for ACK from the first server adjustable?
>
> We've had a couple of people ask for this, so it is on the RFE list. But
> at this time it hasn't been added to the engineering schedule as something
> we will be doing.
>
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