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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-07-01 17:57:25 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-07-01 17:57:25 +1000
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Merge tag 'v3.10' into next
Merge 3.10 in order to get some of the last minute powerpc changes, resolve conflicts and add additional fixes on top of them.
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@@ -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