Subject: Re: SYN cookie ? To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us> List: tech-kern Date: 04/18/2001 10:57:51 Stateless SYN cookies are a clever idea not allowed for by the TCP spec. If the 3rd packet of the TCP 3-way handshake is lost, and the "client" side has no data to send initially, it is the "server's" responsibility to retransmi