Re: [squid-users] How to disable Squid sending SYN packets to destination?

From: Marcus Kool <marcus.kool_at_urlfilterdb.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:02:03 -0300

When a TCP connection is established, TCP SYN packets are exchanged.
Blocking SYN packets is the same as blocking all TCP traffic.

Andreas Braathen wrote:
> I tried it, but it did not change anything. Squid still sends SYN packets to establish state with destination.
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> Any other suggestions?
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>> edit /etc/sysctl.conf
>> change net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=1 to net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=0 and
>> reboot. dont forget to remove the # from the beginning of the line.
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>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Andreas Braathen
>> <andreas.braathen_at_andtux.net> wrote:
>>> Squid is sending SYN packets to destination when receiving GET request from internals hosts. I want Squid to forward the GET request. How is this possible?
>>>
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Received on Sat Apr 23 2011 - 16:02:19 MDT

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