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| author | Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com> | 2013-06-21 15:18:32 +0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-06-24 00:26:26 -0700 |
| commit | a3c910d2e796ce878231350b904105261a8cf09c (patch) | |
| tree | 5464f7c1e3b04d799b42baa9c58f78d8346cb785 /Documentation | |
| parent | 4eb313a7a939a983c525648227b5fe0a9d41679f (diff) | |
tcp: doc : fix the syncookies default value
syncookies is on for default since in commit e994b7c901
(tcp: Don't make syn cookies initial setting depend on CONFIG_SYSCTL).
And fix a typo of CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES.
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -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 f98ca633b52..3458d6343e0 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 |