All TCP ISNs that are sent out are valid cookies, which allows entries
in the syncache to be dropped and still have the ACK accepted later.
As all entries pass through the syncache, there is no sudden switchover
from cache -> cookies when the cache is full; instead, syncache entries
simply have a reduced lifetime. More details may be found in the
"Resisting DoS attacks with a SYN cache" paper in the Usenix BSDCon 2002
conference proceedings.
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