diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 0fb3892e244d..9f5cf63b145a 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 4eb313a7a939a983c525648227b5fe0a9d41679f +refs/heads/master: a3c910d2e796ce878231350b904105261a8cf09c diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/trunk/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index f98ca633b528..3458d6343e01 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/trunk/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