[Info-vax] Harden TCPIP Srv OVMS again SYN FLOOD attacks

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Tue Aug 14 16:14:20 EDT 2018


On 2018-08-14 17:42, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> Either in addition to or in place of increasing the sockets — though 
> pragmatically, there probably aren't all that many good reasons not to 
> run with 64K sockets configured in this era — I'd suggest having a look 
> at the tcp_keepinit setting, and specifically at reducing that value. 

Why the 64K limit? Why not bump it to a few million in that case?

   Johnny

-- 
Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol



More information about the Info-vax mailing list