netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] netfilter: implement netfilter SYN proxy

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Date:	Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:39:45 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	pablo@...filter.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mph@....com, jesper.brouer@...il.com,
	as@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] netfilter: implement netfilter SYN proxy

On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 23:24 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> I see. Well, that seems to be a general problem with SYN cookies, I guess
> in that case the encoding Linux uses should be changed. I'll have a closer
> look at the changes proposed in that thread tommorrow.

I did a quick check on a host, and it turns out that 111664 SYN had TS
option (total of 146123 SYN messages received)

So maybe its not a big issue. We probably need a poll ;)


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