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TCP SYN Flooding Attacks and Common Mitigations
RFC 4987

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Date By Action
2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['TCP SYN Flood', 'TCP SYN Cookies', 'denial-of-service', 'DoS']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "W. Eddy": changed name from "Wesley Eddy" to "W. Eddy", cleared country (was "Cleveland, OH  44135"), changed order from "0" to "1"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2022-07-30
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag, added Verified Errata tag)
2015-10-14
(System) Notify list changed from tcpm-chairs@ietf.org, weddy@grc.nasa.gov to (None)
2007-08-20
Amy Vezza State Changes to RFC Published from RFC Ed Queue by Amy Vezza
2007-08-20
Amy Vezza [Note]: 'RFC 4987' added by Amy Vezza
2007-08-17
(System) RFC published