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From: Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:18:32 +0800 > syncookies is on for default since in commit e994b7c901 > (tcp: Don't make syn cookies initial setting depend on CONFIG_SYSCTL). > > And fix a typo of CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES. > > Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com> Applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 36e5a40..1074290 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -420,10 +420,10 @@ tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds. tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN - Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES + Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack' - Default: FALSE + Default: 1 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility. It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
syncookies is on for default since in commit e994b7c901 (tcp: Don't make syn cookies initial setting depend on CONFIG_SYSCTL). And fix a typo of CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com> --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)