Syn flooding attacks

Jim Shankland writes:

> I don't know of any routers that have these or other means of dealing with
> the SYN attacks.

We deal with them; see http://www.flyingfox.com/synflood_ann.html.

The easiest/best way to deal with SYN floods is to implement BSDI
style TCP compressed state. NetBSD now has it, too. The solution is
far from perfect, but it goes a long way.

Perry