Subject: Re: NetBSD's IPF VS Synflood
To: Samuel Lellouche <sam@omatis.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/04/2001 21:29:19
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 03:23:45PM +0000, Samuel Lellouche wrote:
> 
> How does a NetBSD IPF BOX reacts to Synfloods ? ...
> 
> In the case of a redirection from Public adresse to a private Adress
> 
> does it pass on the flood or tries to reduce it or anything else ?

It depends what you do with IPF I guess. if it's a redirect (or rdr) or
bimap I think it'll pass all packets.

> 
> What are the common methods for a server not to be vulnerable to
> synflood ?

Usually have a good tcp stack on the server :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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