What does "invalid SYN cookies received" in netstat mean?
Issue
- What does "invalid SYN cookies received" in netstat mean?
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In the output of netstat -s we see:
4219 invalid SYN cookies received
what does this mean?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- TCP
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