lots of connections in SYN_RECV state

[Dave Tian]

Oops, my bad. I remember seeing sth on LWN for the 3.x kernel talking about a new feature related with TCP SYN. Thought this pretty old stuff was the one…

-daveti


> On Nov 8, 2014, at 12:58 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 23:49:35 +0800, Dave Tian said:
>> Latest kernel provides a TCP SYN Cookie feature to defense from SYN flooding.
> 
> If by "latest" you mean "since Andi Kleen submitted a patch for 2.1.44",
> back in July 1997....