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Re: Network security enhancement



At 10:51 PM 2/2/2001, you wrote:

# Disables the magic-sysrq key
kernel.sysrq = 0

# Enable TCP SYN Cookie Protection
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1


What does these above two settings mean? What does the Sys-Rq key do in Linux? And what are TCP SYN cookies?


Manish.


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