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Subject: Re: "SYN" protection product leads...
From: Johannes Schwabe <johannes . schwabe @ informatik . tu-chemnitz . de>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:15:23 +0100 (MET)
To: James Terry <james . terry @ imx-exchange . com>
Cc: "'firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM'" <firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM>
In-reply-to: <c=US%a=_%p=IMX%l=MERCURY-971028180541Z-426 @ mercury . imx-exchange . com> 
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, James Terry wrote:

> i'm looking for info on systems that could provide fault-tolerant
> protection against "SYN" attacks

Random Early Drop (RED): if syn queue is full, drop random queued 
syn event and proceed. Under SYN attack conditions, most queued events
are "evil", so you will hurt the attacker.
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