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authorSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>2011-09-29 16:14:51 +0900
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2011-11-01 09:19:41 +0100
commit325aadc8483e4fc3bbd4acfa7e471e3a032bc941 (patch)
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parentb6338b55bd2e7c51a46b23150695d821ae6626d8 (diff)
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ipvs: secure_tcp does provide alternate state timeouts
Also reword the test to make it read more easily (to me)

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt10
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
index 1dcdd49594c4..13610e3bcf92 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
@@ -140,13 +140,11 @@ nat_icmp_send - BOOLEAN
 secure_tcp - INTEGER
         0  - disabled (default)
 
-        The secure_tcp defense is to use a more complicated state
-        transition table and some possible short timeouts of each
-        state. In the VS/NAT, it delays the entering the ESTABLISHED
-        until the real server starts to send data and ACK packet
-        (after 3-way handshake).
+	The secure_tcp defense is to use a more complicated TCP state
+	transition table. For VS/NAT, it also delays entering the
+	TCP ESTABLISHED state until the three way handshake is completed.
 
-        The value definition is the same as that of drop_entry or
+        The value definition is the same as that of drop_entry and
         drop_packet.
 
 sync_threshold - INTEGER