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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 36e5a402ed0e..10742902146f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -420,10 +420,10 @@ tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds. tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN - Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES + Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack' - Default: FALSE + Default: 1 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility. It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand |