<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif">Hi;<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif">On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Mr Kees Cook <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">wrote</span> <span class="">an interesting</span> <span class="">article about Willy Tarreau's </span></span>patch and sysctl option called; "tcp_simult_connect"[1]. At this time, this option is probably not available in the 3.2.39 kernel, because when I'm trying to enable it I get an error about "no such file or directory";<br>
<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">$ echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_simult_connect<br>
cat: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_simult_connect: No such file or directory<br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""><br></span></span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">I would like, to know if this sysctl option will be available in 3.2.39 and higher versions of the Linux kernel? Since, it provide some DoS protection, I think it would be nice if</span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""></span> <span class="">i</span><span class="">t will be</span> <span class="">implemented</span></span> or backported.<br>
<br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">Best regards.<br>________________<br>[1] <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/536843/">https://lwn.net/Articles/536843/</a><br>
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