18 Sep
1996
18 Sep
'96
4:57 p.m.
Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> wrote:
This ratio detection doesn't need to shutdown anything, just syslog the fact so that admins have something in their logs like SYN/ACK RATIO 33:1 POSSIBLE HACKER ATTACK which will make them sit up and take notice.
Ah, you're an optimist. Most sysadmins would simply ignore whatever warnings they get as long as their internal users aren't complaining. And half of them wouldn't know what SYN/ACK ratio is. --vadim