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2. SYN Cookie: Operation

Introduction   As concluded in the last article, in order to avoid allocating space for TCB, the attacked device needs to reject TCP SYN packets sent by clients. In this article I will explain ho...
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Thanks for clarifying the above. This article series goes a long way to explaining how the big-ip handles SYN cookies. I remember looking for a detailed explanation 18 months ago and didn’t seem anything this detailed. Great post!!!

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