What does "invalid SYN cookies received" in netstat mean?

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Issue

  • What does "invalid SYN cookies received" in netstat mean?
  • 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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