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Re: SYN flood protection strategies (Was: Post connection SYN)
From: Paul Robertson <proberts () patriot net>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:19:01 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Handling SYN floods at the firewall lets you conserve internal LAN bandwidth even if your Internet pipe(s) are still going to suffer.
That would imply that you're letting external traffic hit your internal LAN, instead of servers on the DMZ. I figured that particular lesson was learned a good decade ago? Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions proberts () patriot net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." probertson () trusecure com Director of Risk Assessment TruSecure Corporation _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- Post connection SYN Raghuveer (Oct 17)
- Re: Post connection SYN Mikael Olsson (Oct 17)
- Re: Post connection SYN Paul Robertson (Oct 17)
- Re: Post connection SYN Mikael Olsson (Oct 17)
- Re: Post connection SYN Paul Robertson (Oct 17)
- Re: SYN flood protection strategies (Was: Post connection SYN) Mikael Olsson (Oct 17)
- Re: SYN flood protection strategies (Was: Post connection SYN) Paul Robertson (Oct 17)
- Re: SYN flood protection strategies (Was: Post connectionSYN) Mikael Olsson (Oct 17)
- Re: SYN flood protection strategies (Was: Post connection SYN) Chuck Swiger (Oct 17)
- Re: SYN flood protection strategies (Was: Post connection SYN) Paul Robertson (Oct 17)
- Re: SYN flood protection strategies (Was: Post connection SYN) Chuck Swiger (Oct 17)
- Re: Post connection SYN Mikael Olsson (Oct 17)