syn-cookies useful?

Ken W. techwww at yahoo.com.cn
Mon Dec 8 02:44:13 UTC 2008


Hello,


Is it useful to set net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=1 to stop DDOS attacks on Linux? If set, what's the drawback on this option? Thanks.


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