At 05:39 PM 3/12/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Firstly, I advise to turn off RST cookies, only the SYN cookies are
>reliable. In fact there are some known flaws in the RST cookies.
Um, is there any documentation of this? I need to learn more about
SYN and RST cookies and such. I know their purpose, I know they
take two different approaches, and I know RST cookies use more memory.
However, I run MUDs on my Linux box (RH 5.0 - 2.0.33) and when I ran
SYN cookies, people were having problems with the game hanging up on
them. This was reported to the mailing list for that type of MUD
(it's actually MUX), and -only- people using Linux were having problems
with that. The author of MUX decided to blame it on Linux and move
on. After switching to RST cookies, I don't think I've had anyone
get hung up on. Can anyone enlighten me on this?
>Later,
>David S. Miller
>davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
Thanks,
Mike
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