[ECOS] BSD TCP/IP Stack & SYN Flooding

[Rene Nielsen]

Hi folks,
 
I have a question regarding TCP SYN Flooding attacks.

To my understanding these attacks come in two flavors:
 
1) The attacker sends SYN packets only, leaving the connection
half-open.
2) The attacker sends SYN packets and ACKs the SYN-ACK from the server,
effectively opening the connection (this is probably not a real SYN
flood attack, but nevertheless it takes server-side resources...).

Are there any remedies in the eCos' BSD TCP/IP stack to overcome such
attacks (e.g. SYN cache/cookies as suggested by RFC4987 to remedy attack
type #1, timeouts, etc.)?

Regards,
Rene Schipp von Branitz Nielsen 
Vitesse Semiconductors

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