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> >From: Tim Bass[SMTP:[email protected]] > >Sent: Friday, October 04, 1996 7:58 AM > >To: [email protected] > >Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > >Subject: Re: TCP SYN attacks > > > >> > >> My preferred approach is to not even have to store state on any > >> of the embryonic connections. And to implement the fix on all > >> of my hosts. And customers can implement it in a firewall, if > >> they choose (and have boxes which can't be fixed: Win95, NT, Macs, ...). > >> > >> Avi > > Avi, > > Did you mean to state that these boxes can't be fixed (hardened against > SYN attacks) by you? > > Ted L. > > My statements are my own and not of the Microsoft Corp. If I had Win95 or NT source I suppose I could harden them w/out a SYN-handling proxy... Ditto for MacOS (if that's what it's called). Avi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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