RFC 4987 on TCP SYN Flooding Attacks and Common Mitigations
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Subject: RFC 4987 on TCP SYN Flooding Attacks and Common Mitigations
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RFC 4987
Title: TCP SYN Flooding Attacks and
Common Mitigations
Author: W. Eddy
Status: Informational
Date: August 2007
Mailbox: weddy@grc.nasa.gov
Pages: 19
Characters: 48753
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-tcpm-syn-flood-05.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4987.txt
This document describes TCP SYN flooding attacks, which have been
well-known to the community for several years. Various
countermeasures against these attacks, and the trade-offs of each,
are described. This document archives explanations of the attack and
common defense techniques for the benefit of TCP implementers and
administrators of TCP servers or networks, but does not make any
standards-level recommendations. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
This document is a product of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions
Working Group of the IETF.
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