netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] tcp: Early SYN limit and SYN cookie handling to mitigate SYN floods

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Date:	Wed, 30 May 2012 11:46:05 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Martin Topholm <mph@...h.dk>, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
	Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@...csson.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] tcp: Early SYN limit and SYN cookie handling
 to mitigate SYN floods

On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 11:24 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:

> I don't dare to go into that battle with the network ninja, I surrender.
> DaveM, Eric's patches take precedence over mine...
> 
> /me Crawing back into my cave, and switching to boring bugzilla cases of
> backporting kernel patches instead...
> 

Hey, I only wanted to say that we were working on the same area and that
we should expect conflicts.

In the long term, we want a scalable listener solution, but I can
understand if some customers want an immediate solution (SYN flood
mitigation)



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