Question

Stack tweaking is a method to alter the TCP stack so that a timeout takes less time when a SYN connection is left incomplete.

a) true
b) false

Answer 1

A. True

Step-by-step explanation:

Stack tweaking is actually a method to alter the TCP stack so that a timeout takes less time when a SYN connection is left incomplete. This can be done by administrators in order to mitigate the consequence of SYN flood.

It involves the process of reducing timeout until memory allocated to a connection is freed or choosing to drop connections that are coming in.

The TCP flood is a type of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.