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--- advanced-firewall [2026/07/23 17:40] – [Firewall] Condense hogwild
+++ advanced-firewall [2026/07/23 17:43] (current) – Condense, clarity for Enable TCP Syn Packets hogwild
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  \\ **Enable TCP SYN cookies:  **uses "SYN cookies" to protect the router from SYN Flood attacks.
-This encodes information from the SYN packet into the (SYN/ACK) response-a standard method for preventing SYN floods. However, its limitations may cause issues with some old TCP/IP stacks. \\
+This uses a standard method for preventing SYN floods. It encodes information from the SYN packet into the (SYN/ACK) response. Its limitations may cause issues with some old TCP/IP stacks. \\
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 This adjusts the Maximum Segment Size of forwarded TCP connections on WAN and VPN interfaces to match the discovered path MTU.
-This helps avoid MTU-related connection problems, especially on PPPoE links, VPN tunnels, IPv6 tunnels, or networks where ICMP fragmentation-needed messages are blocked.
+This helps avoid MTU-related connection problems, especially on PPPoE links, VPN tunnels, IPv6 tunnels, or networks with blocked ICMP fragmentation-needed messages.
 Disabling this option reduces the number of firewall rules and may slightly improve performance on low-end routers, but can cause connection stalls or TLS handshake timeouts on links with reduced MTU.

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