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tcp: doc : fix the syncookies default value

PATCH Applied Shan Wei 2 participants 2 messages Jun 21, 2013 – Jun 24, 2013

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PATCH 1/1 tcp: doc : fix the syncookies default value

syncookies is on for default since in commit e994b7c901 (tcp: Don't make syn cookies initial setting depend on CONFIG_SYSCTL).

And fix a typo of CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES.

Signed-off-by Shan Wei <[email protected]>
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 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +2 -2
index 36e5a40..1074290 100644
@@ -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
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From: Shan Wei <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:18:32 +0800

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syncookies is on for default since in commit e994b7c901 (tcp: Don't make syn cookies initial setting depend on CONFIG_SYSCTL).

And fix a typo of CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES.

Signed-off-by Shan Wei <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks.