On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:08:40PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Could syn cookies be enabled by default?
> 
> AFAIK syn cookies only get send when the half-open TCP connection queue is 
> full. So stuff like window scaling should work fine in normal situations.
I thought there was a reason why it was not enabled by default. Yes,
you're right that it only kicks in when things are pretty busy in any
case.

I'll have to go searching now for the reasons why it wasnt enabled.

 - Craig
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