iptables: tarpit

Man-wai CHANG mwchang
Tue Sep 5 04:18:11 PDT 2006


> communications are impossible, it does however, tie up the queue.  So
> the connection remains active because the bad guy can't send a FIN.
> 
> A few of these and the bad guys server slows waaaaayyyyyyy down.

Don't understand why the kernel didn't bundle this target. Right now, I
need to use patch-o-matic to enable it.

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