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Differences for page SYN flood

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- The SYN flood is an attack that can nowadays be defined as archaic, although the general idea can still work (in a DDoS, for instance).
+ !!The SYN flood is an attack that can nowadays be defined as archaic, although the general idea can still work (in a DDoS, for instance).
  
  
  The goal of this attack is to send TCP connection requests faster than a machine can process them 
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  the problem (and allocate memory only after the third packet of a new TCP connection reached the host),
  but still the attack can create some problem. A simpler way to face it, that is somewhat effective and
  yet very simple, is to drop a connection at random if there are too many open connections.
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  This wiki is nothing without code, so here we go (as .htcl file).....
  
-  # (c) GPL2 fluxist@gmail.com
+  # (c) GPL2 fluxist(at)gmail.com
   # Usage; hping3 exec ./synflood.htcl <hostname> <dstport>
  
   if {$argc < 2} {
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