25.06.2014, 23:16
There's no point discussing that. Dealing with spoofed connection packets was solved 20 years ago with TCP SYN cookies. The server can insert a known number in to the packet which the client must return to complete the handshake and gain a full connection.
Although the problem was solved in TCP 20 years ago, it is not solved in RakNet or SA-MP, mainly because nobody has bothered using it as an attack before.
The slot consumption isn't the real issue here. Losing slots during an attack is obviously bad. But the high processing caused by all the packets is knocking existing players out of the game. That is what I'll look to solve initially.
Although the problem was solved in TCP 20 years ago, it is not solved in RakNet or SA-MP, mainly because nobody has bothered using it as an attack before.
The slot consumption isn't the real issue here. Losing slots during an attack is obviously bad. But the high processing caused by all the packets is knocking existing players out of the game. That is what I'll look to solve initially.