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December 2005 - Posts

Dual Stack Sockets on Windows Vista

Posted Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:21 PM by wndpteam
One of the changes in Windows Vista is that the IPv4 and IPv6 stacks are integrated -- on older OSes they were completely separate stacks. One benefit of this tighter coupling is the ability to create dual-mode sockets. That is, an application can create Read More...
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Winsock Connect and TCP SYN Attack Protection

Posted Friday, December 09, 2005 3:34 PM by wndpteam
TCP SYN attack protection has been available on Windows platforms since Windows 2000, but by default is turned off. This has changed for the Windows 2003 SP1 release as SP1 enables SYN attack protection by default (which is a good thing). However, once Read More...
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