Re: A modest proposal

In message <Pine.BSI.3.93.960917171801.21768H-100000@sidhe.memra.com>, Michael Dillon writes:

If it only takes 8 SYN packets to lock up a socket for 75 seconds then effective SYN flood attacks certainly *CAN* be launched from a dialup connection. And if the definition of an effective attack allows for intermittently shutting down a socket then effective attacks certainly *CAN be launched from places like Uruguay, Brazil, Indonesia and so forth.

If you can't fix this so its closer to 60,000 than 8 you're on the wrong side of the firewall. This is where a packet filtering router doesn't do the trick. Curtis