Re: Netscaler: 320,000 TCP connects/sec

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From: Dug Song (dugsong@monkey.org)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 15:22:51 PDT


On Tue, 2 May 2000, Adam L. Beberg wrote:

> Now, 320,000 TCP/sec is damn impressive, since even with the smallest
> TCP packets possible (one byte requests) that's well more then a 100Mbit
> connection to the net will handle.

i wonder if they "optimize" their stack at all to mitigate state holding
attacks, whether intentional (SYN flood) or accidental (like FIN_WAIT2).

there may be an interesting security twist to this as well, if so.

-d.

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