On Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:41:46 -0800 (PST) 
 Jonathan Marsden <jonathan@abraham.xc.org> wrote:

 > I see BSDI displaying a patch that adds TCP SYN cache, thereby
 > allowing life to continue fairly normally during a SYN flood attack.
 > Has anyone tried applying this patch to NetBSD 1.2?  It seems as
 > though it ought to be relatively easy to do, for a kernel hacker anyway!

Those patches won't cleanly apply to the NetBSD source tree.  They'll
have to be hand-integrated.

 > IF ti has been done for NetBSD, is there a way to get it without using
 > the -current source tree?

Assuming they're those patches are integrated, it would be reasonable
to assume that a patch for 1.2 would be released.

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