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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-08-14 20:31:29 +0000, Jan-Erik Sderholm said:

> Den 2018-08-14 kl. 22:14, skrev Johnny Billquist:
>> 
>> Why the 64K limit? Why not bump it to a few million in that case?
> 
> You cannot (or should not) set it higher according to the docs or 
> unexpected "things" might happen. It is a built-in limit.

Seems more like a documented bug, but yeah.   Somebody didn't fix the 
parser to prevent whatever mishap arises, nor fixed whatever was 
getting inflamed downstream of the parser.

> Or did you ask why that limit is where it is? Don't know...

I'd suspect it's related to the 64K unit number limitation, though have 
no way to confirm that.



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